An Australian Band of Brothers
Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division. Tobruk-Alamein-New Guinea-Borneo
$35.67
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2018
Summary
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 day-to-d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742235721 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742235727 |
| Author: | Mark Johnston |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 630g |
| Dimensions: | 231mm x 152mm x 35mm |
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“A magnificent achievement from our premier historian of Australian soldiers in WWII. This is superb storytelling.” –Professor Peter Stanley
‘A magnificent achievement from our premier historian of Australian soldiers in WWII. This is superb storytelling.’ - Professor Peter Stanley
About The Author
Mark Johnston
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.
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