The Japanese Thrust
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
When Imperial Japan launched its devastating military campaign across South-East Asia and the Pacific in late 1941, Australia found itself on the front line of a war that threatened its very existence. The Japanese Thrust is a meticulously researched volume in the official Australia in the War of 1939–1945 series, chronicling the dramatic and often catastrophic campaigns fought by Australian forces against the Japanese advance — from the fall of Malaya and Singapore, one of the greatest military disasters in British Commonwealth history, to the desperate fighting retreat through the Dutch East Indies and the brutal struggle to defend the Australian mainland itself. Lionel Wigmore brings the rigour of an official historian and the craft of a skilled narrator to this landmark work, drawing on unit diaries, personal testimonies, and operational records to reconstruct the full sweep of the Japanese offensive with unflinching clarity. The result is both a strategic analysis and a deeply human account of soldiers thrust into impossible circumstances, raising enduring questions about command, sacrifice, and national survival. For anyone seeking to understand how close Australia came to catastrophe in the Second World War, this volume remains an indispensable and sobering account.
Author: Lionel Wigmore
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Australian War Memorial
Genre: WW2
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
When Imperial Japan launched its devastating military campaign across South-East Asia and the Pacific in late 1941, Australia found itself on the front line of a war that threatened its very existence. The Japanese Thrust is a meticulously researched volume in the official Australia in the War of 1939–1945 series, chronicling the dramatic and often catastrophic campaigns fought by Australian forces against the Japanese advance — from the fall of Malaya and Singapore, one of the greatest military disasters in British Commonwealth history, to the desperate fighting retreat through the Dutch East Indies and the brutal struggle to defend the Australian mainland itself. Lionel Wigmore brings the rigour of an official historian and the craft of a skilled narrator to this landmark work, drawing on unit diaries, personal testimonies, and operational records to reconstruct the full sweep of the Japanese offensive with unflinching clarity. The result is both a strategic analysis and a deeply human account of soldiers thrust into impossible circumstances, raising enduring questions about command, sacrifice, and national survival. For anyone seeking to understand how close Australia came to catastrophe in the Second World War, this volume remains an indispensable and sobering account.