The music maker : one POW provided hope for thousands
Byrne, Jaci2018
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Total copies: 1
On May 8 1945, forty-six-year-old Drum Major Jackson staggered towards his American liberators. Emaciated, dressed in rags, his decayed boots held together with string, he'd been force-marched for twenty days over the Austrian Alps after five heinous years as a POW in Nazi labour camps. He collapsed into his liberators' arms, clinging to his only meaningful possession - his war diary. Having already experienced the horrific nature of battle in the First World War, Jackson had now survived another War, unlike hundreds of his mates who'd succumbed to disease or had been killed in action. But he could never have imagined what awaited him on the home front. A testament to human endurance, Jackson's diary and photos are the inspiration for The Music Maker, a story about a man who through his passion for music overcame adversity.
Main title:
The music maker : one POW provided hope for thousands / Jaci Byrne.
Author:
Byrne, Jaci, author
Imprint:
Newport, NSW : Big Sky Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
230 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781925675481 (hardback)
Dewey class:
940.54724309438940.5472
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
602956