Ambon : the truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Auss...
Ambon : the truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Auss...
Ambon : the truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit / Roger Maynard.
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Publisher
Sydney, NSW Hachette Australia, 2014.
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G 2015/2091 , H 2014/4275
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
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cartographic image
still image
text
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unmediated
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sheet
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Publisher
Sydney, NSW Hachette Australia, 2014.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
Brutality, survival, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares. In February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fell to the might of the advancing Japanese war machine. Among the captured Allied forces was a unit of 1150 Australian soldiers known as Gull Force, who had been sent to defend the island a strategy doomed from the very begi...
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Ambon : the truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit / Roger Maynard.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mitchell Library copy at H 2014/4275 ; Submission for Premier's Literary Award 2015.
Mitchell Library copy at H 2015/4275 : Submission for Premier's History Award 2015.
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©2014.
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G 2015/2091 , H 2014/4275
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74VKKblgwkLX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKblgwkLX
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ISBN
9780733630484 (paperback)
DDC
940.547252
MMS ID
991021972489702626
