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Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

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Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

作者:Helliwell 
出版社:Penguin (Au Adult)
出版日期:2024-04-02
語言:英文   規格:平裝 / 576頁 / 普通級/ 初版
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圖書名稱:Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

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Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Australian History Prize.First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize (UK).Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize, the ACT Notable Book Awards, and the Reid Prize.

A remarkable book about Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organization popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII.

March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most have barely encountered Asian or indigenous people before, speak next to no Borneo languages, and know little about Dayaks, other than that they have been - and may still be - headhunters. They fear that on arrival the Dayaks will kill them or hand them over to the Japanese. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face.

So begins the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret operation launched by the organization codenamed Services Reconnaisance Department - popularly known as Z Special Unit - in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than one hundred Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on the operation’s activities along two of Borneo’s great rivers - the Baram and Rejang - the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II’s and Semut III’s brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese, and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation.

But this is no ordinary history. Helliwell captures vividly the sounds, smells and tastes of the jungles into which the operatives are plunged, an environment so terrifying that many are unsure whether jungle or Japanese is the greater enemy. And she takes us into the lives and cavernous longhouses of the Dayaks on whom their survival depends. The result is a truly unique account of the encounter between two very different cultures amidst the savagery of the Pacific War.

 

作者簡介

Christine Helliwell is a New Zealand-born anthropologist, author and academic, currently Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. She has been carrying out research on Borneo’s indigenous Dayak peoples - including living with them in their communities for months at a time - for almost forty years, and has written widely on Dayak social and cultural life.
Since 2014 Christine has been researching WWII in Borneo, with a particular interest in the special operations conducted there by the Australian secret organization codenamed Services Reconnaissance Department, popularly known as Z Special Unit. As part of this research she has traveled extensively throughout Sarawak, in the north of the island, and spoken to hundreds of elderly people who still remember the war. She has also interviewed almost all the remaining veterans from these operations, forming friendships with several in the process. In 2016 she was instrumental in organizing a ceremony to honor the men and women of SRD/Z Special Unit, at the Australian War Memorial. In 2018 she co-curated an exhibition at the Memorial on SRD/Z Special Unit operations in Borneo.
Christine lives in Canberra. Her bookSemut- on the most important of the Borneo ’Z’ operations - took her almost four years to write.

 

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  • ISBN:9781761342356
  • 規格:平裝 / 576頁 / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
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