Courage under fire
Oct 25, 2020
3 minutes
Tom Scott’s SEARCHING FOR CHARLIE: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar (Upstart Press, $49.99) is just the second full biography of Charles Upham, the most decorated Commonwealth soldier of World War II.
The first, by Kenneth Sandford, was an international bestseller published in 1962. Scott, a well-known New Zealand personality, read it during the height of his “war-comic frenzy” and it had a profound effect on him. It became something
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