Keneally, Thomas.

The widow and her hero / Tom Keneally. - North Sydney, N.S.W. : Double Day, 2007. - vi, 297 pages ; 25 cm.

This is a story of an Australian war widow called Grace who struggles to come to terms and understand the brutal death of her young husband at the hands of the Japanese in 1945. As a member of an elite commando group led by Doucette, a charismatic and unstable Irish major, Captain Leo Waterhouse returned home a war hero after a devastating attack on Japanese shipping, only to join a subsequent fatal mission to the heart of occupied Singapore. Sixty years later, Grace learns the truth of his ultimate fate from retired US major general Jesse Creed, who is revisiting his wartime haunts in Australia and the glass is finally shattered.

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Australia. Australian Army Commando troops --Fiction.


World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--Southeast Asia--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Japan--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Singapore--Atrocities--Fiction.
Commando troops--Singapore--Fiction.
Heroes--Australia--Fiction.
Army spouses--Australia--Fiction.
War widows--Australia--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Fiction.
Heroes--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Australia. Army. Commando troops Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 Commando operations Southeast Asia Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 Japan Atrocities Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 Singapore Atrocities Fiction.
Commando troops Singapore Fiction.
Heroes Australia Fiction.
Army spouses Australia Fiction.
Widows--Australia--Fiction.
Soldiers--Australia--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Australia--Fiction.


War fiction.
Historical fiction.
General fiction.