Should We Fall to Ruin OG25 The elderly man mistakes Oliver's

The elderly man mistakes Oliver's behaviour for guilt and has him arrested

all highly original and inventive

offering a compelling insight into the resilience and courage of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize - Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Fact can be as strange as fiction

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Should We Fall to Ruin OG25 The elderly man mistakes Oliver'sWhen the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as hostages to fortune, the little known garrison on Australias tropic frontier has been left with no modern equipment, no lifeline to the outside, and no means of escape. Most are captured and killed in the sinking of the prison ship Montevideo Maru, which remains Australias worst sea