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A battle that could not be won. An island that could not be defended. An ally that could not be trusted. A little known story of two Australian battalions abandoned in Java during World War II and the heroes who kept them alive in the worst of Japan's prisoner of war camps. They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible'.

The whispering wild will take your child if you dare to look away ... The stunning Aussie crime debut from the winner of the 2021 Banjo Prize for Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2023 Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award. Callum Haffenden swore he'd never return to Granite...