Doomed Battalion – Mateship and Leadership in War and Captivity | Peter Henning | Revised 2nd Edition 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

The revised and expanded second edition of Peter Henning's history of the 2/40th Battalion AIF — one of the most significant Tasmanian stories of the Second World War. The 2/40th was raised largely from Tasmanian volunteers in 1940 and sent to defend Timor in early 1942. When Timor fell to the Japanese in February 1942 the battalion was captured almost in its entirety — one of the largest single captures of Australian soldiers in the war.

The survivors endured years as prisoners of war, many working on the Burma-Thailand Railway under conditions of extreme brutality. Of the men who went to Timor, a significant number did not come home. Henning's account covers the battalion from its formation through the Timor campaign, the fall and capture, and the POW years — drawing on diaries, letters, survivor testimony and official records to document both the collective history and the individual stories of the men involved.

At 556 pages with black and white illustrations and a full index, the revised second edition is substantially expanded from the original 1995 first edition.

Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, winner of the 2014 Booker Prize, draws on the experiences of men like those of the 2/40th on the Burma-Thailand Railway, including his father — readers of that novel who want the historical record behind the fiction will find it here.

CONDITION

This copy is used, in very good condition.

BOOK DETAILS

Hardcover with dust jacket.

556 pages, indexed.

Black and white illustrations.

Revised 2nd edition, published 2014.

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