G'day

My name is Don Tate- author of "The War Within" (Murdoch books, Sydney 465 p.)

Ostensibly a memoir, "The War Within" is much more than that. Sixty years of living allow me to take broad strokes to Australiana- from life in Ellen Grove, an impoverished suburb of Brisbane where outlaw behaviour was the norm , to child abuse within the state and private school systems, about being an infantryman in Vietnam - one of the most unpopular wars this nation ever fought- of blatant army incompetence, and medal-grabbing by officers, and then, after being badly wounded, life as a disabled veteran. But it is more than that- it is a quest to understand those processes that define a man, from genes and heritage and the effects of environment, to the relationship between faith and circumstance. It's about the struggle of a man to rise above the horrors of war and the sins of his past, and of the love of a virtuous woman who stands by him.

The Youtube promo best sums it up:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Fx8XQxAew