Kokoda Spirit

Patrick Lindsay (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2009
Hardie Grant Books (Verlag)
978-1-74066-769-2 (ISBN)

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The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. In August 1942, Kokoda was a killing field. The track plays a leading role in the story of Kokoda. Patrick Lindsay takes us on a journey that explores the track as it is today and how it was in 1942. He reconnects us with the past while taking us on the gruelling journey that is Kokoda.

The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised theANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942Kokoda was a killing field. Today, it is hard to imagine what those young men endured for our freedombut the journey gives some clues. The track plays a leading role in the story ofKokoda. It has a character of its own. It is one of the world's most fascinatinglocations - at once an alluring, challenging obstacle of compelling beauty and yeta foreboding, perilous microcosm of life at its rawest and most savage. In Kokoda Spirit, Patrick Lindsay takes us on a journey that explores the track asit is today and how it was in 1942. With his unique storytelling he reconnects uswith the past while taking us on the gruelling journey that is Kokoda.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2009
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations (some col.), ports.
Verlagsort	South Yarra
Sprache	englisch
Maße	201 x 236 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-74066-769-7 / 1740667697
ISBN-13	978-1-74066-769-2 / 9781740667692
Zustand	Neuware