Absent Without Leave

Download or read book Absent Without Leave written by Paul Livingston and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Absent Without Leave' follows three wide-eyed 21-year-olds from their enlistment at the Sydney showground in 1940 to disembarking in the Middle East before being plunged into jungle warfare in the Asia Pacific. Private Stanley Livingston and his two best mates, Roy Lonsdale and Gordon Oxman, would by the end of the war be brothers-in-law as well as brothers in arms. Over the course of the war, these three young men would be court-martialled four times for abandoning their training units. They were not cowards, running from responsibility, rather they were deeply committed family men who ran to the service of their families.