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Invasion Rabaul
Bruce Gamble
其他書名
The Epic Story of Lark Force, the Forgotten Garrison, January - July 1942
出版
MBI Publishing Company
, 2014-03-15
主題
History / General
History / Australia & New Zealand
History / Military / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Pacific Theater
History / World
History / Oceania
ISBN
0760345910
9780760345917
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XgWpAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The riveting first book in Bruce Gamble's critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, originally published in hardcover as
Darkest Hour
, which chronicles the longest battle of World War II.
/divDIV /divDIVJanuary 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the tiny Australian garrison sent to defend this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the darkest hour of the war. Lark Force, comprising 1,500 soldiers and six nurses, faced a vastly superior Japanese amphibious unit poised to overrun Rabaul, capital of Australia’s mandated territories.
Invasion Rabaul
, the first book in military historian Bruce Gamble’s critically acclaimed Rabaul trilogy, is a gut-wrenching account of courage and sacrifice, folly and disaster, as seen through the eyes of the defenders who survived the Japanese assault. Gamble’s gripping narrative follows key individuals—soldiers and junior officers, an American citizen and an Army nurse among them—who were driven into the jungle, prey to the unforgiving environment and a cruel enemy that massacred its prisoners. The dramatic stories of the Lark Force survivors, told here in full for the first time, are among the most inspiring of the Pacific War—and they lay a triumphant foundation for one of today’s most highly praised military nonfiction trilogies./div