Darkest Hour

The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul - Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II

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Hardcover, 304 pages

English language

Published Dec. 15, 2006 by Zenith Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7603-2349-6
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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.

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Subjects

  • Australasian & Pacific history: Second World War
  • History of specific subjects
  • Military
  • History
  • History - Military / War
  • Australia
  • Australia & New Zealand - Australia
  • Military - World War II
  • Oceania
  • History / Military / World War II
  • Campaigns
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
  • Rabaul
  • Regimental histories
  • World War, 1939-1945