Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942

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Allen & Unwin, 1992 - History - 309 pages
Those Ragged Bloody Heroes tells the story of the Australian soldiers who fought on the Kokoda trail. From July to September 1942 the Japanese set about the capture of Port Moresby by an overland crossing of the Owen Stanley Range in conjunction with a landing at Milne Bay. Against a force of 10,000 crack Japanese troops on the Kokoda trail, the Allies committed one undertrained and poorly equipped unit, the 39th Battalion, the chocolate soldiers. Amidst ever-mounting enemy strength and ferocious fighting, the young militiamen were reinforced at Isurava by veterans of the 21st Brigade, 7th Division AIF .
 

Contents

Full of fight but utterly weary
133
A question of momentum
148
The rabbit that runs
182
To the beachhead
209
Embarrassed to be alive
247
Silent
267
Notes
282
Bibliography
296
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Peter Brune is a school teacher and lives in Adelaide with his daughter Kylie. Those Ragged Bloody Heroes is his first book.

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