Ghost Armies

GHOST ARMIES presents Andrew Sneddon's poetic works FUKUOKA and THE WAIT-A-WHILE VINE in one volume. Sneddon's connected verses explore two defining episodes in Australia's history and provide emotional and cultural insights of both personal and universal import. "Fukuoka" relates the experiences of two Australian brothers, Alf and Wally, in a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan during the Second World War. The work contemplates life and death, brutality and kindness, beauty and horror, courage a...