Ambon : The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit

Roger Maynard
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In February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fell to the might of the advancing Japanese war machine. Among the captured Allied forces was a unit of 1150 Australian soldiers known as Gull Force, who had been sent to defend the island – a strategy doomed from the very beginning.

Several hundred Australians were massacred in cold blood soon after the Japanese invasion. But that was only the start of a catalogue of horrors for the men who survived: incarcerated, beaten and often tortured by their captors, the brutality they endured lasted for the next three and a half years. And in this hellhole of despair and evil, officers and men turned against each other as discipline and morale broke down.

Yet the epic struggle also produced heroic acts of kindness and bravery. Just over 300 of these gallant men lived to tell of those grim days behind the barbed wire. In AMBON, survivors speak of not just the horrors, but of the courage, endurance and mateship that helped them survive.

The story of AMBON is one of depravity and of memories long buried – but also the triumph of the human spirit. pp. xvii, 334 illusts First Edition #0119/0221

Additional Information

AuthorRoger Maynard
PublisherHachette, Australia
Year Published2014
Book Condition

Very Good

Binding Type

Softcover

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