Sandakan - the Last March. [5th Edition]
ISBN No. 0 646 32907 3 |
AU $35.00 |
In 1942-43, 1800 Australians and 750 British POWs were transported to Sandakan in British North Borneo to construct an airfield. By the end of 1944 900 of these men had already died of ill treatment, starvation and disease. With Allied forces increasingly within striking distance of Sandakan the Japanese High Command ordered that the prisoners be marched 265 kilometres through the mountainous jungle to Ranau, at the foot of Mt. Kinabalu. Regarded as the most definitive account of the Sandakan tragedy, the book describes and names those Australian Prisoners of War who perished at the hands of the Japanese in Borneo 1942-1945. Only six survived and the book warns of the false information provided by the Japanese of the circumstances of deaths. |
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In 1982 Don Wall wrote Singapore and Beyond, a history of the 2/20 Battalion 2nd AIF.
Don went on to write another six books including the long awaited and well-received Sandakan the Last March, the most definitive account of the Sandakan tragedy to date, Abandoned, Heroes at Sea, Heroes of F Force and Kill the Prisoners.
He also published The other side of Bourke - the fragile land, a tribute to the people of outback New South Wales.
In 2001 Don published Pat Darling’s Portrait of a Nurse.
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| Abandoned? Australians at Sandakan 1945. | |
| ISBN No. 0 731 69169 5 | AU $25.00 |
Tells of the circumstances why a rescue of the Sandakan Prisoners of War was not feasible in 1944-1945. The Japanese had given an order in 1944 that, in the event of an Allied attack, all prisoners were to be killed. This order was intercepted by United States Intelligence. |
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| Heroes at Sea. | |
| ISBN No 0 646 03578 9 | AU $25.00 |
Names some 1800 Australian prisoners of war who had worked on the Burma/ Thailand Railway and were sunk en-route to Japan on unmarked Japanese transport ships by U.S. submarines. Describes the heroes who survived up to six days without food and water until they were rescued by American submarines. |
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| Singapore and Beyond. [2nd Printing] | |
| ISBN No. 0 958 98430 1 | AU $35.00 |
The story of the 2/20 AIF, which took the brunt of the Japanese assault on Singapore in 1942, as told by the survivors. Includes more than 200 photographs and maps, including line drawings by Clem Seale.
"Weary" E.E. Dunlop wrote of this book:..Singapore and Beyond must be one
of the very best Battalion histories to be written. It is a story of gallantly and terrible loss - a triumph of the human spirit against odds. Brave deeds and sacrifice should not be allowed to vanish like smoke, so that this story is highly important. |
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| The Fragile Land, Vol 1. ...the other side of Bourke. | |
| ISBN No. 0 958 54180 9 | AU $25.00 |
A tribute to the people who have contributed so much to the remote areas of Western New South Wales. Includes paintings by Lorna Wall. |
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| Heroes of 'F' Force. | |
| ISBN No. 0 646 16047 8 | AU $25.00 |
Describes the suffering of 3600 Australians and 3400 British Prisoners of War who marched 300 kilometres at night through the jungle to the most isolated locality on the Burma/Thailand Railway where they encountered cholera. Identifies some 1100 Australian prisoners of war that perished in the eight months April to December 1943. Survivors tell their story. |
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| Kill the Prisoners. | |
| ISBN No.0 646 27834 7 | AU $35.00 |
Relates the previously undisclosed fact of British Prisoners of the Japanese who died in captivity in the Far East during 1942-1945. Identifies some 3,500 British Prisoners of War who died under tragic circumstances in Borneo - Ballale Island - and those who perished at sea en-route to Japan. Includes the diaries of Flt.Lieut. Peter E.I. Lee. |
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| Portrait of a Nurse. | |
| Author Pat Darling | |
| ISBN No 0 958 54181 7 | AU $25.00 |
An Australian nurse in World War II tells her story of her survival as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Sumatra 1942-1945. |
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