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Allen & Unwin 1995. First edition, super octavo, mottled brown light card covers with white lettering, xxix + 407pp, illus, VG+ (moderate tanning to page edges, moderate foxing, esp to prelims & terminals)

Self published, Australia, 2014. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Revised and Enlarged Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). ISBN/EAN: 9780987603227. **Heavy Book. A Postage surcharge may be requested. Contact us BEFORE ordering for a quote. Click Ask Bookseller a Question**. 9780987603227

Sydney: The Author, 2014. xiii, 557pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, nominal rolls, appendices, bw ills. Black cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. The 2/40 Battalion-mainly Tasmanians- were sent to garrison an airfield in Dutch Timor immediately after the Japanese entered WWII. Assigned a hopeless military task with misguided strategy they were captured a week after the fall of Singapore in Fenruary 1942. They were then scattered in prison camps across east Asia including Java, Sumatra, Burma, Thailand, Japan and other places. This edition is greatly enlarged from the sofcover first issued in 1995.. Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.