The Lost Battalions: A Battle That Could Not Be Won. An Island That Could Not Be Defended. An Ally That Could Not Be Trusted by Tom Gilling

The Lost Battalions: A Battle That Could Not Be Won. An Island That Could Not Be Defended. An Ally That Could Not Be Trusted by Tom Gilling

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781760632342
Author: Tom Gilling
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2018
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

A little-known story of two Australian battalions abandoned in Java during World War II and the heroes who kept them alive in the worst of Japan's prisoner-of-war camps.

They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible'.

Until now, the story of the 2000 diggers marooned on Java in February 1942 has been a footnote to the fall of Singapore and the bloody campaign in New Guinea.

Led by an Adelaide lawyer, Brigadier Arthur Blackburn VC, and fighting with scrounged weapons, two Australian battalions - plus an assortment of cooks, laundrymen and deserters from Singapore - held up the might of the Imperial Japanese Army until ordered by their Dutch allies to surrender.

Drawing on personal diaries, official records and interviews with two of the last living survivors, this book tells the extraordinary story of the 'lads from Java', who laid down their weapons, but refused to give in. (back cover)

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