The Battle for Isurava By David W. Cameron
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
The Battle for Isurava AudioBook Summary
You are trying to survive, shirt torn, arse out of your pants, whiskers a mile long, hungry…you carry your boots because there’s no skin on your feet. But when you look around at some of the others – hell! They look crook! …you dig a number of holes in the ground and bury your dead. Nothing would be said, but you think, ‘maybe it will be my turn next.’
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of Northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, and these men took up a position at Isurava, in the heart of the cloud-covered mountains and jungles of the Owen Stanley Range.
The battle for Isurava would be the defining battle of the Kokoda Campaign and has rightfully been described as Australia’s Thermopylae. It was here that Australia’s first Victoria Cross in the Pacific war was awarded when the Japanese conducted several ferocious attacks against the Australian perimetre.
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