![]() ![]() I would not have missed it for worlds." My grandfather, who was a pilot at Okinawa, goes on to write that "I feel that too, about my own war… I have never met a man who fought in the second world war – actually fought – who regretted having been there." This sense of the war as at once monstrous and vital is the central concern of Richard Flanagan's novel, which is dedicated to his father, a former prisoner of war of the Japanese, who died just as the book was finished.Īlwyn "Dorrigo" Evans, the novel's protagonist, is the officer in charge of J Force – a thousand-strong group of PoWs working on the infamous "Line", the Burma Railway. ![]() I n his 1997 book, The Soldier's Tale, my grandfather, the literary critic Samuel Hynes, quotes an Australian lance corporal looking back on the slaughter at Gallipoli. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |