{"product_id":"2026100010455-secondhand-not-to-be-shot-at-or-exported-an-airmans-letters-home-1942-1945","title":"Not To Be Shot At Or Exported: An Airman's Letters Home 1942-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nWinner 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distinguished place in the canon of Australian wartime memoir, offering not just a personal narrative but a social and historical document of rare authenticity.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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50736267624667,"sku":"2026100010455-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c83c2af3-6b8b-405b-8f5f-03e27055c311.png?v=1792122716","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010455-secondhand-not-to-be-shot-at-or-exported-an-airmans-letters-home-1942-1945","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}