Grim Glory by Gilbert Mant - Aug 1942: The A.I.F. in Malaya

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The story of the battle at Bakri and Parit Sulong is more than the story of a battle between a small force of under 2,000 fighting Australians and the 1st Japanese Guards Division - in which the Australians held the enemy at bay for five long important days. It is the story of indomitable courage, grim determination and unusual endurance.

These men went into battle, breathing the words, "No quarter given or asked for." Most of them fought to the death. Not once, in their many wireless messages to A.I.F. Headquarters, did they ask for help or suggest surrender. And when the tired and battered remnants of this small band returned to our lines, they hurriedly reorganised and went back into battle filled with the determination to destroy their foe.

The story tells of fine leadership and exemplary courage of their Commander, Lieut-Colonel C. G. W. Anderson V.C., M.C., in civil life a grazier from Koorawatha, near Young, New South Wales; of a strong offensive spirit in all ranks, who, though depleted in numbers, attacked and counter-attacked over and over again, forcing their way through miles of stoutly defended road blocks; of human endurance, especially among the wounded who struggled past the Japanese lines through miles of jungle and swamp back to our lines.

In this book, Gilbert Mant has accurately described the battle and has written a story that every Australian should read.