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Making of Warriors, The: The story of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1942

$34.95

Making of Warriors, The: The story of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1942

SKU: 9780648446668 Category: Product ID: 13158

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Title: Making of Warriors, The: The story of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1942
Author: SMITH GRAHAM J
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2019
Imprint: ROSENBERG
Price: $34.95
Publishing status: Active

The
relentless pursuit of the Japanese during the Kokoda Track campaign is
described in gut-wrenching detail in The Making of Warriors, through first-hand veteran accounts. The
bloody and ferocious action at the Battle of Eora Creek followed by the routing
of the Japanese at the battle of Gorari where they threw down their weapons and
fled, sealed the reputation of the Australians. They were both respected and feared.



The
actions of the battalion at Soputa, where Captain Catterns led 90 men in a
direct assault against an estimated 1700 Japanese are the stuff of legend. The
war torn and weary remnants of the battalion returned to Australia with every
surviving member suffering from debilitating cases of malaria.

Told mainly through first-hand accounts, as recalled by veterans,
personal letters and war diary entries, and news reports, the chapters covering the Kokoda Track
Campaign include written accounts from the enemy’s perspective; drawn from a
joint Australian/Japanese study, Japanese
Army Operations in the South Pacific Area: New Britain and Papua Campaigns
1942-43
provided by the Australian War Memorial.

ISBN: 9780648446668
Dimension: 225mm X 150mm

Additional information

Dimensions 225 × 150 mm