Archie’s
Letter: An Anzac Day Story
By Martin Flanagan.
Illus Ainsley Walters: Pub. 2010
On Anzac Day 2010, a
96-year-old man in Hobart, a returned soldier from World War II, wrote a letter
to the local paper thanking the people who were going to that morning’s dawn
service. Who was this man? Why did he write this letter?
Archie’s Letter tells the story of an ordinary man who went off to fight in World War
II. His experiences included surviving the Burma Railway, where he was under
the command of Australian war hero, Weary Dunlop.
Archie’s Letter also tells how he dealt with his wartime experiences; how, at the age of
91, he agreed to meet a group of elderly Japanese women interested in world
peace; how he could never forget the young men who were with him during the war
and who didn’t come back.
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