Best We Forget (SIGNED)

Author: Bernard Clancy
Binding: Softback
Published: Indra Melbourne, 1998

Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed

Donkey Simpson, a typically naive young Australian thrust into uniform by his country, sets out on the adventure of a lifetime – or so he thinks. But Vietnam is not what he expected. It’s a horror story. It is a story over which he has no control, at first a “typical Army stuff-up” which wrenches him this way and that, like a puppet soldier on a string, and then something far more dangerous and sinister threatens to destroy him – but who’s pulling the strings? Best We Forget is the story of Simpson and his mates, caught in a war between powerful ideologies which none of them understood. They walk the fine line of sanity, swinging wildly between love and hate, pathos and humor, patriotism and treason, life and pointless death. The souls of Australia’s first “fighting failures” are laid bare in a cauldron of classic farce, intrigue, double-cross, espionage – and humor. Because despite the madness, they still laughed till they died…