This is the story of everyman Jack. It is the story of young men who go to war innocent and untried and return as different men.

It is also the story of one man, Jack Bourke. A hero, a humble hero. An Australian who rose to the challenge of the increasingly faraway names carved on memorials and cenotaphs across the nation. Tobruk, El Alemein, Finschhafen, North Boreo. Everyman Jack who served his fellow man to the very best of any man’s ability.

This is Jack’s story told with the help of the war diary he kept from 1940 to 1945.