Description
Title: Hostages to Freedom – The Fall of Rabaul
Author: Stone, Peter
Condition: Near Mint +
Edition: 3rd Edition
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0646241249
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 513 pages
Comments: This is not a pleasant story. It is neither complimentary to the Japanese military, nor to Australian politicians during the Pacific war. It tells of atrocities and bureaucratic bungling that left over one thousand young Australians dead. Yet within these pages are men who demonstrate the true courage and determination of the Australian and American during the Pacific War. The men of the 2/22nd Battalion formed the majority of the Australian forces in this bloody campaign.
