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Remembering the forgotten.(Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign in Greece 1941; Pompey Elliott; Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific)(Book review)

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Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign in Greece, 1941, by Peter Ewer; Scribe, 2008, $59.95.

Pompey Elliott, by Ross McMullin; Scribe, 2008, $39.95.

Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific, by Gavan Daws; Scribe, 2008, $32.95.

THE THREE BOOKS before me on the table share certain qualities: all are concerned with war; all bear that most authentically Australian imprint of Scribe Publications. Two are fresh editions of books which have already won substantial successes. One work is new.

Ross McMullin's Pompey Elliott appeared first in 2002, to such acclaim that fresh printings were required again in that year, and then in ...

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