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The Cowra Breakout (Paperback)
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The Cowra Breakout (Paperback)
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Loot Price R586
Discovery Miles 5 860
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The riveting story of the missing piece of Australia's World War II
history, told by bestselling historian Mat McLachlan (Walking with
the Anzacs, Gallipoli: The Battlefield Guide). During World War II,
in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, Japanese prisoners
of war were held in a POW camp. By August 1944, over a thousand
were interned and on the icy night of August 5th they staged one of
the largest prison breakouts in history, launching the only land
battle of World War II to be fought on Australian soil. Five
Australian soldiers and more than 230 Japanese POWs would die
during what became known as The Cowra Breakout. This compelling and
fascinating book, written by one of Australia's leading battlefield
historians, vividly traces the full story of the Breakout. It is a
tale of proud warriors and misfit Australian soldiers. Of
negligence and complacency, and of authorities too slow to
recognise danger before it occurred - and too quick to cover it up
when it was too late. But mostly it is a story about raw human
emotions, and the extremes that people will go to when they feel
all hope is lost.
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