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As in Schindler's List, Keneally draws on actual events and uses a broad backdrop—here, World War II in the Pacific—for his tale of a POW camp located in a remote corner of Australia. Tensions arise when the camp's commander, English colonel Ewan Abercare, disagrees with Australian major Bernard Suttor, in charge of the camp's Compound C, over how to deal with its "most unpredictable and surly" Japanese prisoners, particularly should th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More