Format:
1 online resource (441 pages)
ISBN:
9781760873554
Content:
A powerful new insight into the critical first weeks of fighting to halt the Japanese advance across Papua New Guinea to Port Moresby.
Content:
Cover -- Praise for David W. Cameron -- Also by David W. Cameron -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps -- Prologue -- Part One - PREPARATIONS -- 1 'Lower, Sport' -- 2 'The best of the local bunch' -- 3 'Four cases of whisky' -- 4 '. . . if he went into action against the Japs, he wouldn't come back' -- 5 'Some twit in headquarters . . .' -- 6 'Rum turned out to be mostly metho spirits' -- Map - The Kokoda Track -- 7 'Condemned latrines andordered new ones' -- Part Two - INVASION -- 8 'How safe we all felt-alas!' -- 9 'Under heavy bombardment.Smashed radio. Evacuating' -- 10 'The damp soil was your bed and the rotten logs your pillow' -- Map - Kokoda-Buna area -- 11 'It gave us rather a horrible feeling having them so near' -- 12 'Scrummy, scrummy . . . I wouldn't have missed it for anything' -- 13 '. . . two shots, followed by a terrific burst of firing' -- 14 'We only had rifles' -- 15 'Our swags were much easier to manage now . . .' -- 16 'What's the state of your underpants, Sarg?' -- 17 'May and I took off our filthy dresses and washed them' -- 18 'Give me a thought sometimes . . .' -- 19 'Grab yourself some headlights, fellas' -- Part Three - THE FIRST BATTLE FOR KOKODA -- 20 - 'Passes over range must be secured' -- 21 'Worn as no hat ever should have been worn' -- 22 '. . . the Japanese have already penetrated 60 miles inland' -- 23 'Rot boy! Bloody rot!' -- Map - First engagement at Kokoda, 28-29 July 1942 -- 24 'Those rats are bad here' -- 25 'I told them with a smile, not to spread rumours' -- 26 'Every carrier is precious' -- 27 'This was the first time a lone white man had appeared amongst them' -- Part Four - THE SECONDBATTLE FOR KOKODA -- 28 'A heap of boots that never dried out' -- 29 'It is an Australian Aboriginal name meaning "Dawn of Day"' -- 30 'All I can do is make him warmfor his last hours'.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781760529550
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781760529550
Language:
English
