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Sydney: Harpercollins [Harper Collins Publisher]. 2021. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 356 pages. The story of Australian POW Scott Heywood and his war. Woven through it is his wife, Margery's, story as she waited anxiously with their two young children in rural Victoria. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

Harper Collins, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. 'Profoundly moving ... I don't mind saying I wept at the end, for all the young men lost to war, their widows and children ... a lovely book.' The AustralianDoug Heywood was a teenager when he discovered, in a shoebox hidden in a wardrobe, hundreds of letters, all written by his father, Scott Heywood. As a POW on the infamous Burma Railway, Scott wrote almost daily to his young wife, Margery, on scraps of paper that had to be hidden from guards. These letters tell of an enduring love - and also, intriguingly, of how Scott dealt with the most brutally testing circumstances.Scott's story has echoes of another story happening 7000 kilometres away at the same time. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist, was rounded up with his family and sent to Auschwitz in September 1942. Frankl later wrote in his classic book Man's Search for Meaning that the last of the human freedoms was the ability 'to… Read More