Not To Be Shot At Or Exported: An Airman's Letters Home 1942-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the darkest years of the Second World War, one Australian airman found a way to bridge the vast distance between the battlefront and home — through letters. Not to Be Shot at or Exported presents the intimate and unfiltered correspondence of Leslie Harold Sullivan, an RAAF serviceman whose letters home between 1942 and 1945 paint a vivid, ground-level portrait of wartime life — from the mundane to the harrowing. Written with candour, wit, and an unmistakable larrikin spirit, Sullivan's words capture the texture of a young man's experience in uniform: the camaraderie, the anxiety, the dark humour, and the deep longing for home that defined a generation of Australian servicemen. Winner of the 1994 Heritage Award, this collection holds a distinguished place in the canon of Australian wartime memoir, offering not just a personal narrative but a social and historical document of rare authenticity. Sullivan's prose — unpolished and all the more powerful for it — illustrates the resilience of the human spirit under extraordinary pressure, and the enduring bond between a soldier and the family he left behind. For readers of Australian military history, this is an irreplaceable window into a world that was at once deeply personal and world-historically momentous — and it leaves one wondering just how many such voices were never committed to paper.
Author: Leslie Harold Sullivan
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the darkest years of the Second World War, one Australian airman found a way to bridge the vast distance between the battlefront and home — through letters. Not to Be Shot at or Exported presents the intimate and unfiltered correspondence of Leslie Harold Sullivan, an RAAF serviceman whose letters home between 1942 and 1945 paint a vivid, ground-level portrait of wartime life — from the mundane to the harrowing. Written with candour, wit, and an unmistakable larrikin spirit, Sullivan's words capture the texture of a young man's experience in uniform: the camaraderie, the anxiety, the dark humour, and the deep longing for home that defined a generation of Australian servicemen. Winner of the 1994 Heritage Award, this collection holds a distinguished place in the canon of Australian wartime memoir, offering not just a personal narrative but a social and historical document of rare authenticity. Sullivan's prose — unpolished and all the more powerful for it — illustrates the resilience of the human spirit under extraordinary pressure, and the enduring bond between a soldier and the family he left behind. For readers of Australian military history, this is an irreplaceable window into a world that was at once deeply personal and world-historically momentous — and it leaves one wondering just how many such voices were never committed to paper.