Long Journey Home
The perilous escapes of Anzac POWs from fascists in wartime Italy
$29.60
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
After her father’s death, Katrina Kittel opens his old Globite suitcase and finds tiny photos, postcards in beautiful handwriting from a mysterious Swiss woman, and memorabilia from his war.
Katrina Kittel’s father Colin Booth was captured during the disastrous July 1942 attempt to take Alamein’s Ruin Ridge. He was among 80,000 Allied soldiers sent to camps in northern Italy as prisoners of war.
They suffered hunger, illness and cruel punishments for petty offences, and they w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761472701 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761472704 |
| Author: | Katrina Kittel |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 422g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 154mm x 234mm |
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Katrina Kittel
Katrina Kittel is an historian and librarian who currently works in public libraries in the lower Hunter region of New South Wales. For 30 years she was employed in faculty and client service roles at the University of Newcastle, including student advisory, research assistant and librarian. She has been researching the stories of Australian and New Zealand POWs in Italy for over a decade, and was selected for the ACT Writers Hardcopy 2017 program.
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