Sons of WarIn the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never have imagined. Like many of their fathers in the Great War, they went with their eyes wide shut: under trained, under equipped, and under age. Some were as young as thirteentoo young even to shave. Many did not grow old; others came back broken. A handful are still alive to tell their tales. This extraordinary book