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Synopsis
Set in Australia in 1941, this novel follows Rod, a giant of a schoolboy who enlists and becomes a legend to his platoon, not least for his outsize boots. This is a warm, honest novel whose hero explodes the heroic notions of war by questioning wartime atrocities.
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From Publishers Weekly
Although he is only 15, tall, strapping Rod is able to talk his way into the Australian army during World War II; he joins a platoon fighting the Japanese in New Guinea. A sympathetic encounter with an enemy soldier makes him aware of their shared humanity. Some time later, Rod is killed in battle, and, as a souvenir, the Japanese take Rod's enormous boots. His outraged mates storm the camp to regain them; years later one of them realizes that the Japanese troops considered Rod a genuine hero, and that the boots were taken out of respect, not as a morbid wartime trophy. Despite effusive prose and heavy-handed symbolism, Noonan creates many scenes of graphic intensity and presents a largely glorified vision of battle. But, perhaps because he writes primarily of individual acts of daring rather than the daily horrors of infantry warfare, the focus is a boyishly old-fashioned view of fighting, oddly romantic in this post-Vietnam era. Ages 12-up.
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- PublisherThe Watts Publishing Group
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 1852131454
- ISBN 13 9781852131456
- BindingPaperback
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