Australian Band of Brothers
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ANZAC history
Author_Mark Johnston
Borneo
campaign
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COP=Australia
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Format=BC
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frontline soldiers
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IMPN=NewSouth Publishing
ISBN13=9781742235721
Language_English
lest we forget
military
military history
New Guinea
NSW
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PD=20180402
POP=Sydney
Price_€20 to €50
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PUB=NewSouth Publishing
rats of Tobruk
soldiers
Subject=History
Subject=Warfare & Defence
Tobruk
veterans
wartime
WMM=153
World War II
WWII
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- ISBN 9781742235721
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2018
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Sydney, AU
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which during campaigns in Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo sustained more casualties and won more medals than any other Australian division. It is an evocative and detailed account of the dayto-day war of three infantry soldiers whose experiences included night patrols at Tobruk, advancing steadily through German barrages at Alamein, charging enemy machine guns in New Guinea, and repelling Japanese charges on Borneo. Inspired by American historian Stephen Ambrose’s landmark book, Band of Brothers, about the US Army’s Easy Company of the 506th Regiment, Mark Johnston, one of our best military historians, here gives an Australian company the same treatment. Using the frank and detailed personal letters, diaries and memoirs of three Australian soldiers, he brings to life their campaigns, battles and interactions with their comrades and enemies. His book is a unique and powerful account of the everyday experiences of a small unit of soldiers on the front line.
Dr Mark Johnston is Head of the History Department at Scotch College, Melbourne, Victoria. Mark Johnston is one of this country’s leading experts on the Australian Army in World War II. He was described in the Australian War Memorial’s Wartime magazine as ‘the leading historian on the experience of Australian soldiers during the war’. This book, his eleventh, goes to the heart of that wartime experience.
