Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II

by Bruce Gamble

Book Overview

January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the defenders of this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the war's darkest hour. Fifteen hundred men and six nurses, Lark Force, had been deployed to New Britain to fortify and defend Rabaul, capital of Australia's mandated territories. Once they'd completed their work on the strategic port and its two airfields, the group-mostly volunteers from Victoria-had settled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760323496
• ISBN13: 9780760323496
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Zenith Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"