Peter Mitchell

About The Author

Peter Mitchell is a lawyer by training and was a partner in a major law firm. More recently, for many years he ran a regional non-profit organisation, based in Singapore. History is his passion. He grew up listening to his father and his friends regularly talk about their wartime experiences and has read extensively. He lived in Singapore for twenty years and has travelled and worked extensively throughout East Asia. 

Books by Peter Mitchell

I'll Walk Beside You

Love, Loss, the Burma Railway and the Human Spirit

By Peter Mitchell

From the fall of Java to the hell of the Burma–Thai Railway, one battalion’s courage becomes a nation’s story.
February 1942. The troopship HMT Orcades lies in port at Java, heavy with Australian soldiers whose fate hangs in the balance. Among them are brothers Cal and Alan, unaware that t...

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Under the same Moon

An Australian Battalion at War and a Family at Home

By Peter Mitchell
“A moving and intimate portrait of two brothers at war.” Michael McKernan

Under the same Moon intricately weaves together the lives of a family, their sons, and the men of the battalion they join, all set against the backdrop of a bygone Australia during World War II. This compelling hist...
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