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082 0 4 _a940.547252
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099 _a940.5472
_bREE
100 1 _aRees, Peter,
_d1948-
_eauthor.
_922528
245 1 2 _aA week in September :
_ba story of enduring love from the Burma Railway /
_cPeter Rees and Sue Langford ; read by James Saunders.
250 _aUnabridged.
264 1 _aTullamarine, Victoria :
_bBolinda Audio,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c℗2021.
300 _a8 CDs (9 hr., 9min.) :
_bdigital, stereo ;
_c12 cm ; in container.
336 _aspoken word
_bspw
_2rdacontent.
337 _aaudio
_bs
_2rdamedia.
338 _aaudio disc
_bsd
_2rdacarrier.
520 _aDoug Heywood was a grown man when he discovered, in a shoe box hidden in a wardrobe, a time capsule of sorts, hundreds of letters, all written by his father, Scott Heywood, to his mother, Margery. Scott, a POW on the infamous Burma Railway, wrote letters almost daily to his young wife, on scraps of paper that had to be hidden from guards. These letters tell us of an enduring love, and also, intriguingly, they tell us how Scott managed to make it through the most brutally testing circumstances. Scott's story bears an uncanny resemblance to another story, coincidentally happening 7000 kilometres away. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist, was rounded up with his family and sent to Auschwitz in September 1942. "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing," Frankl wrote, "the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." Scott Heywood and Viktor Frankl, on opposite sides of the world, had seen the accepted structures and certainties of their worlds turned upside down. Each faced his own psychological challenge; each responded to the life force of survival. This is the untold story of one man, one ordinary man, and his war. Woven through it is Margery's story, as she waited anxiously with their two young children in rural Victoria, trapped in an emotional rollercoaster, unaware that he was writing letters to her that could not be posted. This is a powerful and moving story of love, resilience and survival.
511 0 _aRead by James Saunders.
600 1 0 _aHeywood, Margery
_xCorrespondence.
_9118201
600 1 0 _aHeywood, Scott
_xCorrespondence.
_9118202
610 2 0 _aBurma-Siam Railroad.
_921423
650 0 _aMilitary spouses
_xCorrespondence.
_9118203
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zAustralia.
_913979
650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zBurma.
_9116466
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xPrisoners and prisons, Australian
_zBurma
_vPersonal narratives.
_9116463
655 7 _aAudiobooks.
_2lcgft.
_92125
700 1 _aLangford, Sue
_c(Psychologist),
_eauthor.
_9118204
700 1 _aSaunders, James,
_d1985-
_enarrator.
_9111093
710 2 _aHarper Audio (Firm)
_9113910
945 _i31111059682946
_p$97.71
999 _c39504
_d39504
942 0 0 _02