JUNGLE WARFARE WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY IN THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC
Australian War Memorial Hardcover 208 Pages 1944
The stories and illustrations in this book were received in a competition by members of the Australian Army.
CONDITION: Wear to covers, gift inscription to rear of ffep, lacks DJ, past page has closed tear to outer edge.
SAVAGE JUNGLE An Epic Struggle for Survival
By Iain Finlay
Simon & Schuster Softcover 438 Pages 1991
This is the incredible story of how one man, left to die in the jungles of Malaya during World War II, after his battalion had been decimated during the Japanese drive to take Singapore, survives, living on the run in unbelievably hostile circumstances, without ever being captured. Arthur Shephard, a corporal in the Australian 2/29th Battalion, took part in the only 'successful' battles in the six-week campaign, at Muar and Bakri, in which a force of Japanese Imperial Guards, of vastly superior numbers, were held up for several days. Eventually overwhelmed, the 2/29th and other allied units withdrew, to fall back on Singapore, final defeat and incarceration until the end of the Pacific War, in Changi prisoner of war camp and on the Burma Railroad. But, Arthur Shephard and three other badly wounded soldiers, unable to keep up with the retreat through the rubber trees, had been left behind to fend for themselves and basically, they knew...to die.
CONDITION: Wear to covers and creasing to same extending for a few pages, wear to outer edges with yellowing to fore edge.
THOSE RAGGED BLOODY HEROES From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942
By Peter Brune
Allen & Unwin Softcover 404 Pages 2005
The definitive account of the Australians on the Kokoda Trail - a story told through the eyes of the Australians who fought there, many of whom have now passed away. This book is a stirring history of triumph, tragedy and controversy set in the mud and steaming jungle of the Kokoda Trail and the fire-swept beaches at Gona.
CONDITION: Very Good
MATES and MEMORIES Recollections of the 2/10th Field Regiment
By Dr Bob Goodwin
2/10th Field Regiment Association Softcover 216 Pages 1998
Queensland’s 2/10th Field Regiment was formed in July 1940 at Randbank Camp, Brisbane, as one of the 8th Division’s three artillery regiments. Initially imprisoned in the sprawling Changi prisoner of war camp, it was not long before members of the 2/10th were allocated to external work parties. The first parties were dispatched around Singapore and southern Malaya, but later 2/10th members found themselves bound for the camps along the Thailand–Burma Railway and to Borneo. Other prisoners were sent to Japan and Sumatra. Of the 834 officers and men of the regiment who became prisoners, 270 died. The surviving prisoners were liberated in late August 1945 and began returning to Australia almost immediately.
CONDITION: Neat gift inscription to inside front cover
BAMBOO DOCTOR A harrowing account of one man’s fight against death and disease in the Jpapnese hell-camps on the RIVER KWAI
By Stanley S. Pavillard
Pan Books Softcover 156 Pages 1970
Includes a list of the Officers and Men of ‘D’ Battalion who were with the author in Siam.
CONDITION: Good tanning to pages
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