Fear Drive My Feet

Text Classics

Nonfiction, History, Military, World War II, Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Peter Ryan ISBN: 9781925095876
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Publication: June 24, 2015
Imprint: Text Publishing Language: English
Author: Peter Ryan
ISBN: 9781925095876
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Publication: June 24, 2015
Imprint: Text Publishing
Language: English

Fear Drive My Feet is Peter Ryan’s enduring account of his time patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II.

Far from his fellow Australians and with Japanese forces closing in around him, the eighteen-year-old Ryan endures the hardships of the jungle, overcoming loneliness, fatigue and fear with quiet courage. He finds beauty in the rugged mountain landscapes of New Guinea, and admires the charm and resourcefulness of its people.

Rarely out of print in the past four decades, Fear Drive My Feet is a classic memoir of the war in the Pacific, a major work of Australian war literature. For the work he describes in this book, Peter Ryan was awarded the Military Medal and mentioned in dispatches.

Peter Ryan has been a newspaper columnist, the director of Melbourne University Press and an officer of the Victorian Supreme Court. He was an intelligence operative behind enemy lines in New Guinea in World War II. He lives in Melbourne.

‘Outstanding.’ Peter Pierce

‘A moving account of a young man’s lonely heroism.’ Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop

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Fear Drive My Feet is Peter Ryan’s enduring account of his time patrolling isolated regions of New Guinea during World War II.

Far from his fellow Australians and with Japanese forces closing in around him, the eighteen-year-old Ryan endures the hardships of the jungle, overcoming loneliness, fatigue and fear with quiet courage. He finds beauty in the rugged mountain landscapes of New Guinea, and admires the charm and resourcefulness of its people.

Rarely out of print in the past four decades, Fear Drive My Feet is a classic memoir of the war in the Pacific, a major work of Australian war literature. For the work he describes in this book, Peter Ryan was awarded the Military Medal and mentioned in dispatches.

Peter Ryan has been a newspaper columnist, the director of Melbourne University Press and an officer of the Victorian Supreme Court. He was an intelligence operative behind enemy lines in New Guinea in World War II. He lives in Melbourne.

‘Outstanding.’ Peter Pierce

‘A moving account of a young man’s lonely heroism.’ Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop

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