Making Shadows : Not Avail : 9780646892924 : 0646892924 : 18 Feb 2024 : Making Shadows spans the period from the fall of Singapore in World War 2 to the Welcome Home Parade for Vietnam veterans in 1987. It is a story about what appear to be opposites - life and death, light and shadow, war and peace - when, in fact, they are the same. Joe is a National Service conscript. Assigned to his four-man tent at Nui Dat base, he is scrutinised by three regulars of the 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam. Once they learn he has a degree in psychology, he is nicknamed Shrink. The story follows the diggers through their time in Vietnam, and their subsequent personal battles in the aftermath of the war - PTSD, drug use and organised crime, murder and revenge, heartache and good fortune. As the story proceeds, we learn about Frank, Joe's father, and his time as a Japanese POW. We follow Joe's adopted First Nations sister, Dot, as she weaves her way through the family's post-war traumas and