Jay Hooper

Broschiertes Buch

LEST WE FORGET

Recollections of the 1942 Papuan Battle

Beschreibung

This booklet is about some of the Australian soldiers who fought in the 1942 Papuan battle. The subject is approached at a "human" rather than a "military strategy" level. It is a story of the recollections of these men. Sometimes from personal war diaries. Sometimes supplemented from published war histories. Sometimes from letters or published recollections - often published decades after the events. "Tempus fugit" - time moves on and when all else is gone the written word remains. This booklet is an attempt to preserve their stories in the written word.

Autor

Jay Hooper is a past National President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. He is the author/co-author of numerous published professional and policy documents. He is not a historian nor a past serviceman. In his retirement, he accompanied his father, other veterans of the 1942 Kokoda battles, and their relatives on commemorative tours of the battlefields. He has attended numerous reunions and met many of the 1942 veterans. His father, Alan Hooper, served in 49th btn, Papuan Infantry Battalion, and ANGAU. He served the first 1,000 days without leave - much of it behind enemy lines in a remote jungle. Alan wrote two books on his war experience. He was a youth of the Great Depression. Jay has developed an interest in learning more about the generation of young men who so willingly exposed themselves to the brutality of war. He is at a stage of life where he has the time to digest the contents of his father's vast PNG library.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jay Hooper
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 158g
• ISBN-13: 9780645283716
• ISBN-10: 0645283711
• Artikelnr.: 62859400