29) Retreat from Kokoda by Raymond Paull I once had a chance meeting with a very sweet elderly man who informed me that he was a veteran of this campaign. My deepest regret is that I didn’t have any further opportunity to ask him what he endured because the story of Kokoda (and also that of The Siege of Tobruk) is pretty much the WWII equivalent of Gallipoli and one that is entrenched in Australian legend. This book was one I found on an online charity bookshop (which however many times I tell myself I don’t need to buy any more books I always guilt trip myself by saying the money is going to charity) and I was not disappointed. This brought the story to life and like that of Gallipoli is shrouded in mystery, probably for most Australians like myself this really hits home as it reminds us that the war was literally on our doorstep (not withstanding also that the Japanese had already bombed Darwin) and it was our own troops that drove back the Japanese
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