Of Love And War, The Letters And Diaries Of Captain Adrian Curlewis And His Family 1939-1945 By Philippa Poole

Of Love And War, The Letters And Diaries Of Captain Adrian Curlewis And His Family 1939-1945 By Philippa Poole

Hardcover

ISBN 0712601600

Publisher: Century Publishing

Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

Of Love and War is a genuinely original and moving memoir of World War 2 centred on the handwritten diaries of an Australian officer, Captain Adrian Curlewis who witnessed the fall of Singapore and spent nearly four years as a prisoner of the Japanese at Changi Gaol and on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. What makes this book unique is not only Adrian Curlewis's diary but also the interleaving of his entries with the letters sent by his wife Betty and the diary kept by his mother at home in Sydney. These give an intimate picture of a family parted by war- 1800 days of separated lives in Adrian's phrase. Edited by Adrian's daughter nearly 40 years after they were written, these letters and diaries recreate the joys and sorrows of the war years more vividly than any novel or television series and cannot fail to engage the emotions of the most hardened reader.