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Tom Gilling

Tom Gilling was born in England in 1961 and emigrated to Australia in 1983. His first book, The Sooterkin, was critically acclaimed, and was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2000. He followed up with Miles McGinty, which was published around the world. Dreamland is his third novel, and sees Tom Gilling head in an exciting new direction.

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Title:

The Lost Battalions

Written by:

Tom Gilling 

Read by:

David Tredinnick 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

8 

Duration:

9 hours 33 minutes 

Published:

February 28 2019 

Available Date:

February 28 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489487162 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian; World War II 

Publisher:

ABC Audio 

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A battle that could not be won. An island that could not be defended. An ally that could not be trusted.

They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed ‘fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible’. Until now, the story of the 2000 diggers marooned on Java in February 1942 has been a footnote to the fall of Singapore and the bloody campaign in New Guinea. Led by an Adelaide lawyer, Brigadier Arthur Blackburn VC, and fighting with scrounged weapons, two Australian battalions – plus an assortment of cooks, laundrymen and deserters from Singapore – held up the might of the Imperial Japanese Army until ordered by their Dutch allies to surrender. Drawing on personal diaries, official records and interviews with two of the last living survivors, this book tells the extraordinary story of the ‘lads from Java’, who laid down their weapons, but refused to give in.