Shadows on the Track: Australia’s Medical War in Papua 1942-1943Kokoda - Milne Bay - The Beachhead Battles [Large Print 16pt]

At Templeton’s Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: â ~One wonders why all this strife should be â ] these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers’. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th Australian Field Ambulance, Kennedy was unenviably wellplaced to reflect on the futility of ......