THE HEROES OF RIMAU

UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERY OF ONE OF WWII'S MOST DARING RAID

Lynette Ramsey Silver

from research of Major Tom Hall

On September 11, 1944, the British submarine "Porpoise" set sail for Indonesia. It was carrying the 23 Australian and British members of Operation Rimau. The mission was considered an utter failure. 

After a 31 year search, Major Tom Hall, with the assistance of writer Lynette Silver, has overturned the official version and uncovered the truth. Aided by thousands of Japanese and Allied documents and by the first-hand accounts of several Indonesians and Malays, sole witnesses to the events of 1944, they have established the fate of every member of the party and unravelled the story of "The Heroes of Rimau" - a story that has for 45 years been all but lost, distorted by hearsay and fantasy, by military cover-ups and conspiracy, by official bungling, ineptitude and apathy. This book not only chronicles a feat of extraordinary daring in the face of overwhelming odds, it also exposes the appalling sequence of events which has, until now, resulted in the shameful suppression of the truth about one of the most amazing stories to emerge from World War.

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16 x 24 x 2.7cm, 28oz, indexed, 314pp

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