The Bone Man of Kokoda
by Charles happell
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1405038365
- ISBN 13
- 9781405038362
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About This Item
Pan Macmillan, Australia, 2011. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Kokichi Nishimura was a member of the 2nd battalion, 144th Regiment of the Japanese Imperial Army. In 1942 he fought along every foot of Kokoda as the Japanese attempted to take Port Moresby. He was the only man from his company to survive the campaign. As he was evacuated to safety he made a promise that one day he would return to his comrades and bring them home to Japan for proper burial. After the war, Nishimura prospered. But under the surface, the driving ambition of his life was to fulfil his promise. In 1979, he shocked his family by returning to New Guinea to search for the remains of Japanese soldiers. For the next 25 years, Nishimura lived alone along the Kokoda Track. Armed only with a metal detector, a mattock and a shovel, he searched for his dead comrades. Over the years he found hundreds of them some he was able to identify and return their bones to their families; others were unknown, and their remains were sent to Japan's official shrine for its war dead in Tokyo. In 2005 Nishimura, now in his mid-eighties and seriously ill, was forced to return to Japan. His story is an incredible adventure that gives us a radically different viewpoint on a battle that has become part of our national myth. Nishimura's life and quest above all offer a poignant reminder of the futility of war. 272 pages. Light tanning to page edges. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781405038362. Inventory No: 268920.. 9781405038362
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 268920
- Title
- The Bone Man of Kokoda
- Author
- Charles happell
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1405038365
- ISBN 13
- 9781405038362
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Unbranded EAN: 9781405038362 Charles happell The Bone Man of Kokoda
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