The Climate Of Courage: Jon ClearyAustralian troops have been repatriated from the Middle East in order to face the likely threat of Japanese invasion after the fall of Singapore and Indochina. The story begins with an eight day Sydney furlough between the two theatres of combat, explores the relationships they have come home to and gives the reader a sense of Sydney in 1942, when people were still more or less unaware of the gravity of the threat of war. In New Guinea, the first days