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Retaking Kokoda

The Battles for Templeton's Crossing, Eora Creek and the Oivi-Gorari Positions

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Retaking Kokoda

By: David W. Cameron
Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
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Japanese Major General Horii TomitarO, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back across the mountains to the Japanese beachheads at Gona, Sanananda, and Buna, leaving a force between Templeton's Crossing and Eora Creek to stop any Australian advance through the mountains. The Japanese, unknown to the Australians evacuated Ioribaiwa Ridge just before they launched their attacks and to their amazement on storming the heights, the Australians encountered no resistance – the Japanese had gone.

This, however, did not mean the fighting on the Kokoda Track was over, far from it. Three more desperate actions would be fought by the Australians and Japanese, before the decisive battles for the Japanese beachheads could be decided – the battles for Templeton's Crossing, Eora Creek, and finally the Oivi-Gorari positions on the northern lowland plains. Just 15-kilometres east lay the Kumusi River, the last geographical barrier before reaching the strongly fortified Japanese beachheads themselves.

©2022 David W Cameron (P)2022 W. F, Howes Military
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A very entertaining and enlightening account of the final stages of the Kokoda campaign, which follows on from earlier episodes/ books also by Cameron.

Detailed history with original diary excerpts from both Australian and Japanese forces.

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The book was wonderfully read. But the production was poor.
Where the narrator cleared his throat, or reread parts, there was no editing out of the mistakes.

Poorly edited.

A great history of the rest of the Kokoda campaign.

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the use of the word coy, pronounced as koi, which it is not, it is pronounced 'company'. pretty sure most readers of military history will be military or ex-military and the use of the word coy instead of company would grind on all.

get it right.

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