AUSTRALIAN MILITARY
2/28th Battalion, 9th Division, Second A.I.F. In January 1941 Jim Paterson climbed aboard a large troopship anchored offshore from the Port of Fremantle, blissfully unaware of what lay in store for him: six months in Tobruk, capture in north Africa, prisoner of war on an Italian ship, eventual escape from a prison camp, and guerrilla fighting in the mountains of Slovenia.192 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims. ; 21 cm. #130315/250323
Paterson, Jim, 1918- | Prisoner-of-war escapes — Slovenia. | World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Australian.