Darkest Hour

By Bruce Gamble

Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, australia, Japan, Montevideo Maru (Ship), Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1940-1947). Infantry Battalion, 2/22nd, Australia, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, World war, 1939-1945, naval operations, japanese, World War II, Atrocities, World War, 1939-1945, history, Regimental histories, History, Prisoners of war, Campaigns, War in the Pacific

Description: As the Japanese expanded their Empire across the Pacific in World War II, a small force of 1,500 Australian soldiers and medical personnel were sent to the island of Rabul. This book tells the story of the Japanese invasion of the island and the defeat of the Allied forces there as told by Allied survivors.