This book is 'Abandoned: Australian at Sandakan 1945' by Don Wall. Published in Australia by the author in 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 152 pages. Illustrated. A very good copy in similar dust jacket.

The book is signed by Don Wall on the title page. The book is also signed by (GUNNER) OWEN CAMPBELL, (PRIVATE) NELSON SHORT & (PRIVATE) KEITH BOTTERILL on the front free endpaper. 

The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of 2,345 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Japanese during the Pacific Campaign of WWII in the Sandakan POW Camp. By the end of the war, of all the prisoners who had been incarcerated at Sandakan and Ranau, only six Australians survived, all of whom had escaped. It is widely considered to be the single worst atrocity suffered by Australian servicemen during the Second World War.

AN ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE ITEM AND AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY.

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