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Trooper to the Southern Cross, by Angela Thirkell
Even in the age of air travel, Australia is a long way away. Traveling to Australia by sea must have been like traveling to the moon. Traveling to Australia by sea with a shipload of repatriated Aussie infantrymen and a load of prisoners on a sabotaged passenger ship, as Tom Bowen does in Angela Thirkell’s Trooper to the Southern Cross, is even worse. Tom is a cheerful narrator so, in spite of his many trials and tribulations on board the Rudolstadt, the journey becomes a good yarn instead of a torment...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.
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