The Writer
p. 71 · Read in the full issue
“The Japanese Thrust”, by Lionel Wigmore, volume four in the Army series of Australia’s official war history, was reviewed in the January “PIM”.
The review dealt mainly with the unhappy facts of the loss of Rabaul and New Britain to the Japanese in 1942.
In this article, Gordon Thomas (“Tolala”), who was a war-prisoner of the Japanese in Rabaul and one of the few Rabaul civilians to survive the Japanese occupation, gives the kind of personal angle that war histories never do.