I'll Walk Beside You

 

 

Under the same Moon is the first of two volumes. The second, I’ll Walk Beside You, picks up where this volume finishes – the men still on the ship at Tanjong Priok dock in Java, uncertain of their fate; their families in Australia having lost contact, sending letters of hope; a panicked government preparing for what seemed certain invasion.

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I’ll Walk Beside You follows the Battalion’s travails in Southeast Asia and return to Australia, and the families’ struggles at home. It is a story of love, laughter, separation, hideous brutality, incredible courage, beauty amid degradation, the human camaraderie that aids survival, and the miraculous default to humour that can occur as men and women endure appalling circumstances. It is a recreation of the horror that is war and the depleted civilian life of those left behind.

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Release date May 2026. For more information, contact Big Sky Publishing

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