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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gamble, Bruce, author.     Subjects     Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1940-1947). Infantry Battalion, 2/22nd.     Montevideo Maru (Ship)     World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Australia.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.     Prisoners of war -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul.     Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) -- History, Military -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gamble, Bruce, author.       by title:      Invasion Rabaul : th...         MARC Display

Invasion Rabaul : the epic story of Lark Force, the forgotten garrison, January-July 1942 / Bruce Gamble. by Gamble, Bruce, author. Minneapolis, MN : Zenith Press, 2014. Subjects Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1940-1947). Infantry Battalion, 2/22nd.   Montevideo Maru (Ship)   World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Australia.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.   Prisoners of war -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul.   Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) -- History, Military -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780760345917 (paperback) 0760345910 (paperback) Description:  304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm Contents:  Prologue -- Diggers -- Evil Spirits -- Hostages to Fortune -- Prelude to an Invasion -- Chaos -- Vigorous Youth from Shikoku -- Every Man for Himself -- You Will Only Die -- Tol -- Escape: The Lakatoi -- Escape: The Laurabada -- Outcry -- Inside the Fortress -- Cruel Fates -- The Long Wait -- Epilogue. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover as Darkest Hour, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II. January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the tiny Australian garrison sent to defend this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the darkest hour of the war. Lark Force, comprising 1,500 soldiers and six nurses, faced a vastly superior Japanese amphibious unit poised to overrun Rabaul, capital of Australia's mandated territories. Invasion Rabaul, the first book in military historian Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, is a gut-wrenching account of courage and sacrifice, folly and disaster, as seen through the eyes of the defenders who survived the Japanese assault. Gamble's gripping narrative follows key individuals--soldiers and junior officers, an American citizen and an Army nurse among them--who were driven into the jungle, prey to the unforgiving environment and a cruel enemy that massacred its prisoners. The dramatic stories of the Lark Force survivors, told here in full for the first time, are among the most inspiring of the Pacific War--and they lay a triumphant foundation for one of today's most highly praised military nonfiction trilogies"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H 940.54265 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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