Abandoned and Sacrificed: The Tragedy of the Montevideo Maru
by Spurling, Kathryn
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About This Item
Sydney: New Holland, 2017. 1st edition. As New. octavo. stiff wrappers 303pp., b/w plates, maps, notes, bibliog., Between January & July 1942 hundreds of Australian defence force volunteers and civilians were massacred by the invading Japanese. Forced into the holds of the hell-ship Montevideo Maru, a further 1053 perished in Australia's worst maritime disaster. On 22 June 1942, 845 military POWs and over 200 civilian internees left Rabaul on the freighter Montevideo Maru. On 1 July this vessel was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Sturgeon close to Luzon, resulting in the deaths of all prisoners and internees on board
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76308
- Title
- Abandoned and Sacrificed: The Tragedy of the Montevideo Maru
- Author
- Spurling, Kathryn
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- New Holland
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2017
- Size
- octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- WW2 Naval;
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