Ralph Honner

Kokoda Hero

By: Peter Brune

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Paperback | 1 October 2007 | Edition Number 2

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Ralph Honner: Kokoda Hero is the story of one of Australia's great World War II battalion commanders.

Honner fought as a junior officer in the first and triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna. He then took part in the heartbreaking and disastrous campaigns in Greece and Crete where he was one of the last Australians to be evacuated by submarine-three months after Crete's fall.

But it was during 1942, at Isurava on the Kokoda Trail and at the Japanese beachhead of Gona in Papua New Guinea, that Ralph Honner played a decisive role in the making of an Australian legend. Worshipped by his men, he was severely wounded in 1943 and, after a long convalescence, served Australia with distinction as a public servant, political figure and diplomat.

Written by one of Australia's bestselling military history authors, who knew Ralph Honner and had access to his private letters and papers, Ralph Honner: Kokoda Hero contains gripping, action-packed descriptions of the fighting in North Africa, Greece, Crete and Papua New Guinea. The story of a remarkable man, it covers events from Honner's adolescence in the last vestiges of pioneering Australia through to his distinguished political and diplomatic career, spanning nearly a century of his nation's history.

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies History General & World History Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History Military History Second World War Anzac History The Second World War

Foreword
Maps
Born of the Great Hunger	p. 1
Life in epic terms	p. 19
It's a confidence business	p. 36
These war correspondents amuse us	p. 61
The morning hate	p. 78
Gropers Albany	p. 94
Some untidy things	p. 137
A soldier's Calvary	p. 151
Energising the situation	p. 193
Once more unto the breach	p. 206
The Koitaki factor	p. 246
This is not a mob!	p. 246
The inevitable last act	p. 274
Leave my window open	p. 291
Notes	p. 342
Bibliography	p. 348
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