TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tucker, Alan,
TI  - Battlefield
SN  - 9781741695519 (pbk)
U1  - A823.4 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Gosford, N.S.W.
PB  - Scholastic Press
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Concentration camp escapes
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Japan
KW  - New South Wales (Cowra)
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - For primary school age
N2  - Barry Blacker is obsessed with being a soldier. He is desperate to join the army like his older brother Jack, who is in a Japanese POW camp. He practises drills on the family farm in Cowra, and spies on the Japanese prisoners in the camp nearby. When some of the prisoners escape, Barry's attempt to be a hero has devastating consequences. Based on a true story
ER  -