Fear Drive My Feet [Paperback]

Peter Ryan (Author), Sir Edward (Weary) Dunlop (Preface)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Duffy & Snellgrove (2002)
• ISBN-10: 1875989870
• ISBN-13: 978-1875989874
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,305,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent history of a little known part of WW2, April 7, 1998

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Terry Foxcroft (Khancoban) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fear Drive My Feet (Paperback)

This book by Peter Ryan is amazing. A story of one man patrolling in New Guinea in WW2 with natives, trying to obtain as much information as possible about the enemy, while working behind the enemy lines for more than a year. Highly recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Romance of the Coast Watchers, July 30, 2002

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R. J Szasz "Rod Szasz" (Tokyo, Japan Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fear Drive My Feet (Paperback)

Quite simply one of the most exciting reads possible about one man on a large island (Bougainville) and the Japanese Army that gradually hems him in.

Plenty of heartstopping moments and many times after putting it down, you ask yourself... "what would I do.....?"

Jungle, deep inpenetrable, rough trails which traverse the island over high mountain ranges, waiting for resupply from air at night on a lonely hilltop, knowing that if you die, you die alone --- it is all here.

A shame books like this are not written anymore.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Save yourself a trip to New Guinea! Read this book., October 8, 2000

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"absentwithoutleave" (melbourne, vic Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fear Drive My Feet (Paperback)

I was given a very old,battered Trash and Treasure copy of this book, and frankly was not interested in WW2 stories.However, one day I started it and within a page or too my heart was pounding with fear and exertion, mozzies were biting and it was steaming hot, hot, hot. I became the 18 year old (18! Good grief!, a mere baby ,a schoolboy) sent by a ignorant command into largely uncharted , enemy controlled desperatly physically difficult territory, and ALONE! What madness, but thank goodness Peter Ryan survived to tell the tale so brilliantly. and to have a distinguished career in academic publishing. A friend of a friend was able to get my copy autographed for me, quite a thrill.