{"product_id":"2026200011971-secondhand-jacks-war","title":"Jack's War","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\u003eA young man in uniform, standing before a worn wooden door — this single image encapsulates the quiet courage at the heart of Jack's War, a personal wartime memoir by Jack Liley that chronicles one soldier's lived experience through the tumult of the Second World War. Drawing directly from memory and personal record, Liley presents an intimate, ground-level account of military service that cuts through the grand narratives of battle to reveal the human cost beneath — the waiting, the fear, the camaraderie, and the moments of unexpected grace that define a soldier's daily reality.\n\nWhere official histories speak in the language of strategy and command, Jack's War speaks in the language of lived truth, offering readers a rare and unfiltered window into one man's wartime journey. Liley's voice is unflinching yet deeply personal, carrying the authority of a witness who survived to tell the tale with honesty and humility. This is memoir at its most essential — a testament to ordinary men caught in extraordinary times — and it leaves the reader asking: what would we have done in his place?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130875715803,"sku":"2026200011971-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/09bcb241-13c9-4af6-8792-65e435122717.png?v=1786591718","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011971-secondhand-jacks-war","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}