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Semut : the untold story of a secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo, Christine Helliwell
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- Summary
- 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 organisation 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 562 pages
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- Isbn
- 9780143790020
- Label
- Semut : the untold story of a secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo
- Title
- Semut
- Title remainder
- the untold story of a secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo
- Statement of responsibility
- Christine Helliwell
- Title variation
- Semut
- Title variation remainder
- the untold story of a secret Australian operation in World War two Borneo
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 organisation 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
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- ANL:PDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Helliwell, Christine
- Dewey number
- 940.541
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- Australia
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Special forces (Military science)
- Dayak (Bornean people)
- Borneo
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- Semut : the untold story of a secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo, Christine Helliwell
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- Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 000068888383
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 562 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143790020
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- illustrations, maps, portraits
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- NLApp94127
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- (OCoLC)1257752251
- Label
- Semut : the untold story of a secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo, Christine Helliwell
- Note
- Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
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- 000068888383
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 562 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143790020
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- illustrations, maps, portraits
- Stock number
- NLApp94127
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