A LONG WAY HOME

About the Book

In 1940, seventeen-year-old Clemence Goetsch forged his father's signature and enlisted in the Kaffrarian Rifles in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape. What followed was six years that would test every boundary of the human spirit.

From the burning sands of North Africa to the fall of Tobruk, from a rusted Italian prison ship to the frozen tunnels of Stalag XVIII-A in Austria — Clem survived capture, escape, betrayal, and the slow collapse of the man he had been. He came home to a country that hung flags and cheered, but carried a war inside his bones that no one could see.

A Long Way Home is the story of how a broken soldier found grace — and how the longest journey of his life was not across three continents, but back to himself.