Gull Force
australian pows on ambon and hainan, 1941–45
$37.34
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2025
Summary
Gull Force: A Forgotten Tragedy of Ambon
The members of the Australian battalion of Gull Force endured some of the harshest prisoner-of-war conditions of any Australian during the Second World War.
In February 1942, on the remote island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1131 Australian soldiers were preparing for invasion by Japanese forces. Outnumbered and ill-equipped, theirs was an impossible mission. After their defeat, over 200 Australians were massacred. The survivors faced three…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761170027 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761170023 |
| Author: | Joan Beaumont |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 434g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 209mm x 135mm |
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About The Author
Joan Beaumont
Joan Beaumont is Professor Emerita at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. She is one of Australia’s pre-eminent scholars on Australian prisoners of war and is the author of Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War, the critically acclaimed account of Australia’s experience of the First World War, which was joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History and winner of the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History. She is also the author of Australia’s Great Depression: How a Nation Shattered by the Great War Survived the Worst Economic Crisis It Has Ever Faced and co-editor with Allison Cadzow of Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship.
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