The Second 28th: The Story of a Famous Battalion of the Ninth Australian Division by Philip Masel With a Foreword by Sir Henry Wells

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has wear at top and tail and is now enclosed in a dust jacket cover. Previous owner has left an embosser stamp on blank preliminary endpage.

All the infantry battalions of the famous 9th Australian Division experienced action-packed campaigns in the desert and the jungle. Still, the 2/28th seemed to have been singled out by fate for an especially dramatic history.

It was the 2/28th that, on the first day of the siege of Tobruk, used the Bush Artillery to bluff Rommel into halting an attack that could otherwise have proved unstoppable. It was the 2/28th that lost the battle of Sugar Seven because a stray bullet prevented the firing of the success signal. It was the 2/28th that suffered the great disaster of Ruin Ridge in the El Alamein desert.

Three months later, it was the 2/28th that avenged itself during one of the most critical days in the Battle of Alamein. And it was the 2/28th that performed the epic crossing of the Busu River in New Guinea.

Written by Brigadier Masel OBE, an original officer of the 2/28th Battalion. (book flap)