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001 2014455947
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050 00 $aD805.J3$bM396 2014
100 1 $aMaynard, Roger,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAmbon :$bthe truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit /$cRoger Maynard.
264 1 $aSydney, N.S.W.$bHachette Australia,$c2014.
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axvii, 334 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 319) and index.
520 $aBrutality, survival, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares. In February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fell to the might of the advancing Japanese war machine. Among the captured Allied forces was a unit of 1150 Australian soldiers known as Gull Force, who had been sent to defend the island a strategy doomed from the very beginning.Several hundred Australians were massacred in cold blood soon after the Japanese invasion. But it was only the start of a catalogue of horrors for the men who survived: incarcerated, beaten and often tortured by their captors, the brutality they endured lasted for the next three and a half years. And in this hellhole of despair and evil, officers and men turned against each other as discipline and morale broke down. Yet their epic struggle also produced heroic acts of kindness and bravery. Just over 300 of these gallen men lived to tell of those grim days behind barbed wire. In Ambon, survivors speak of not just the horrors, but of the courage, endurance and mateship that helped them survive. The story of Ambon is one of both the depravity and of memories long buried - but also the triumph of the human spirit. It has not been widely told - until now.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese.
650 0 $aPrisoner-of-war camps$zIndonesia$zAmbon Island.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zAustralia.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zIndonesia$zAmbon Island.
651 0 $aAmbon (Indonesia)$xHistory.