Paul Ham's KOKODA is the bestselling history of the crucial battles in Papua New Guinea that saved Australia from the threat of Japanese attack.In this acclaimed account, Ham describes both sides of the appalling struggle along the Kokoda Track in 1942 when a few badly trained Australian troops confronted the Imperial Japanese Army in the worst terrain imaginable. Few of us know the true story behind that legend; few know the guts inside the myth. Kokoda was a war without mercy; a predatory war, where men hunted down men like wild animals. No army had fought in such conditions; no Allied general believed it possible.Yet Kokoda was a vital struggle; undoubtedly a turning point in the Pacific War. Had the Japanese captured Port Moresby, Australia would surely have been bombed and cut off as the only base in the South West Pacific for the Allied counter-offensive.The diggers were fighting for their very country's survival as the last free nation in Asia.
- ISBN:
- 9781742148298
- 9781742148298
- Category:
- History
- Format:
- MP3 CD
- Publication Date:
- 01-09-2010
- Publisher:
- Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
- Country of origin:
- Australia
- Dimensions (mm):
- 139x144mm
- Weight:
- 0.5kg
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