Doomed Battalion - The Australian 2/40 Battalion 1940-45 - Peter Henning |SC, 1st ed. 1995|

Doomed Battalion tells the story of the 2/40th Battalion, the only AIF battalion recruited almost entirely from Tasmania. Sent to Dutch Timor in December 1941 fewer than 1,000 men faced the Japanese attack of 20 February 1942 and surrendered three days later. Survivors spent three and a half years in Japanese prison camps across South-East Asia, including forced labour on the Thai-Burma railway. Peter Henning reconstructs the Timor fighting from documents and interviews and examines the prisoner-of-war experience, including the psychology of captivity and how mateship and leadership held up under extreme hardship.

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BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover Book
• First edition, published 1995
• Pages: 407
• Illustrations: black and white

CONDITION

Used but generally good condition for its age. Spine faded. Wear to corners. Pages tanned. Strong tan lines inside covers.

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