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“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian 
soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a 
leg and with “ANZAC eyes” ... what a later war would call “The 
Thousand Yard Stare”. 

Despite his post-traumatic stress disorder, Digger Smith sets about 
ministering to everybody’s troubles but his own ... his internal 
conviction that his amputee status will make him seem “half a man” 
in the eyes of the lady love he left behind when he went off to the 
War. 

Oh Digger Smith, how little faith you have in woman... - Summary by 
Son of the Exiles 


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Read by Son of the Exiles. Total running time: 1:24:17 


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This recording is in the public domain and may be reproduced, 
distributed, or modified without permission. For more information 
or to volunteer, visit librivox.org. 

Cover picture based on book cover. Copyright expired in U.S., 
Canada, EU. and all countries with author’s life +70 yrs laws. Cover 
design by Annise. This design is in the public domain. 

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