Brian Walpole. My war: an Australian commando in New Guinea and Borneo 1943-1945.Brian Walpole Captain Brian Walpole OBE led the Concorde fleet for British Airways since the beginning of the supersonic era, and was the mastermind of its commercial success. The career of Captain Brian Walpole is second to none in the history of post-war aviation. . My war: An Australian commando in New Guinea New Guinea (gĭn`ē), island, c.342,000 sq mi (885,780 sq km), SW Pacific, N of Australia; the world's second largest island after Greenland. and Borneo 1943-1945, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Books, 2004, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0 7333 1463 5, pbk, $29.95. My war is the gripping, true story of one soldier's war in the jungles of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (păp`  ə, –y . It is arguably one of the most
extraordinary individual experiences of an Australian soldier during
World War 2. Brian Walpole was 18 when he was sent to New Guinea to
serve in one of Australia's first commando units--he would never be
the same again. As part of Z Special Unit, Brian found himself a
guerrilla, fighting alongside the legendary Boys Own "Wild Men of
Borne" who were willing to exchange Japanese heads for money.
Sitting in the jungle, listening to the phoney but sweet words of Tokyo
Rose and surrounded by death, Brian had to struggle to reconcile his
upbringing with the violence exploding all around him.
Walpole's "baptism of fire' reveals a courageous, insightful boy whose 'young' voice reaches across the decades and takes you to the heart of his experience. Through a combination of fast-paced storytelling, dry Australian humour and quiet philosophical questioning, Walpole offers a hugely entertaining account of his spinetingling adventures amid the horrors and challenges of a ruthless and desperate war. Brian Walpole wrote My War with David Levell, an accomplished writer and television producer. |
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