Fear Drive My Feet
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At just seventeen years old, Peter Ryan volunteered for one of the most dangerous assignments of the Second World War — operating alone as an intelligence agent deep in the uncharted jungles of Japanese-occupied New Guinea. Fear Drive My Feet chronicles Ryan's extraordinary true account of months spent on the run, forging alliances with local villagers, gathering vital military intelligence, and evading capture through terrain as treacherous as the enemy itself. Written with the unflinching clarity of a young man acutely aware of his own mortality, the narrative carries an almost unbearable tension, recounting ambushes, betrayals, and acts of remarkable human kindness in equal measure. Beyond its gripping wartime adventure, the memoir stands as a profound testament to courage, endurance, and the bonds forged between cultures under the most extreme of circumstances. Ryan's prose is spare yet vivid, capturing the suffocating heat of the jungle and the weight of isolation with the authority of lived experience. First published in 1959 and long regarded as a classic of Australian war literature, the book raises searching questions about duty, fear, and what it truly means to survive — questions that resonate long after the final page is turned.
Author: Peter Ryan
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At just seventeen years old, Peter Ryan volunteered for one of the most dangerous assignments of the Second World War — operating alone as an intelligence agent deep in the uncharted jungles of Japanese-occupied New Guinea. Fear Drive My Feet chronicles Ryan's extraordinary true account of months spent on the run, forging alliances with local villagers, gathering vital military intelligence, and evading capture through terrain as treacherous as the enemy itself. Written with the unflinching clarity of a young man acutely aware of his own mortality, the narrative carries an almost unbearable tension, recounting ambushes, betrayals, and acts of remarkable human kindness in equal measure. Beyond its gripping wartime adventure, the memoir stands as a profound testament to courage, endurance, and the bonds forged between cultures under the most extreme of circumstances. Ryan's prose is spare yet vivid, capturing the suffocating heat of the jungle and the weight of isolation with the authority of lived experience. First published in 1959 and long regarded as a classic of Australian war literature, the book raises searching questions about duty, fear, and what it truly means to survive — questions that resonate long after the final page is turned.