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Aged nineteen, John Hepworth joined the AIF in 1942, using a false identity. After service in the Middle East, Ceylon, and the Kokoda Track counter-offensive, he was finally part of the Aitape-Wewak campaign on New Guinea’s north coast in 1944.
Bob Ellis says” It’s great book of battle, the year-long struggle to take the northern shore of New Guineau, painfully and totally, and pointlessly as it turned out… a great despairing love song too, to generation of men , the shrewd and cheery innocents who came out of the Depression, scalded and game and stoic…never such innocence again…
Never a friend so close, never a grief so great. Never again.”
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