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Fukuoka

Prison hospital, Thailand, 1942

Prison transport, Changi To Fukuoka, Japan, 1943

Fukuoka

Alighting, Japan, 1943

First night

Prisoners of war

Signing up

Off civvy street

Adversaries

Proving grounds

Mum

I. Grudges

Invasion

I. Cruelty

II. Cruelty

Brother

Fukuoka winter

Burial, 1917

III. Cruelty

How I remember my brother

II. Grudges

Taking life

Frugality

A beating

Despair

Lessons

Gold Tooth

My brother

Hierarchies

III. Grudges

Body and soul

Beyond the wire

Indifference

The mine

Bombast

I. Memory

Locale

I. Kindness

Alchemy

The abuser and abused

Night escape

II. Kindness

II. Memory

Dignity

Anxieties

Death

Amputee

Reflections

Overheads

Eyewitness

Pneumonia

The turning tide

Honour roll

More friendly bombers, 1945

I. Liberation

II. Liberation

After

Anzac Day in old age

Tally

Souvenir

IV. Grudges

Author’s Note and Acknowledgements

The Wait-a-While Vine

Historical Note

How does it begin?

The Brisbane River

Departure

Circular Quay

Encounter

Letters of introduction

Blush

Dinner party

Learning the ropes

At another time

Surveying

Proving ground

Sydney City

Arrivals

I. An old convict recalls

II. An old convict recalls

III. An old convict recalls

IV. An old convict recalls

V. An old convict recalls

VI. An old convict recalls

Semantics

Testing the instruments

Jacky Jacky

The water channel

Provisions

Shark attack

Sheep

Vines

The hunt

Termite mounds

Superiority

The horses

Botany

Those left behind

Inquiry

Campfire I

Campfire II

Journal keeping

Quarry

Invaders

Journal entry I

Journal entry II

Journal entry III

This place

Journal entry IV

Stumble

Pudding Pan Hill

The last hurdle

The attack

In Jacky’s own words

Last words

Ghost armies

An epilogue

Aftermath I

Aftermath II

Aftermath III

How does it end?

About the Author

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