OF LOVE AND WAR: The letters and diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis and his family 1939-1945

by Captain Adrian Curlewis, Philippa Poole

A$55 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Pp. 280, chapter head-pieces, illustrations including 14 full page , 4 maps 3 full page , index; small cr. 4to; tan boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1982. First edition. *Adrian Curlewis was the son of Australian children's writer Ethel Turner. He enlisted in the AIF in 1940. When Singapore fell in 1942 he became a prisoner-of-war and for the next three and a half years he secretly kept two diaries documenting the atrocities

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