Description

Title: A Rat’s Tale – Tobruk to Kokoda 1940-1945

Author: Wilson, Harold

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1999

ISBN: 0646373412

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 96 pages

Comments: The author’s experience as a member of the 1st Australian Corps Signals during the siege of Tobruk. He was one of the famous ‘Rats of Tobruk’. He later saw service during the Kokoda Campaign.

The German propaganda machine coined the term ‘Rats’ to describe the Australians and others who would not come out of their holes to surrender to Rommel’s forces.

Security bar code on rear cover.