A story of young Australians’ mateship and bravery against all odds in WWIIFor Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened – and just what our troops achieved. In this new edition of his bestselling account of this seminal battle, Peter Fitz Simons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, moving story specially geared for high-school age readers. Conditions on the track were hellish – rain was constant, the terrain close to inhospitable, food and ammunition supplies were practically non-existent and the men constantly battled malaria and dysentery, as well as the Japanese. Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia – a small force of young, ill-equipped Australians engaged a highly experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track – and defeated them.Prase for the original edition:’an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller’ The Sydney Morning Herald
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