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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794203703321

Autore

Gilling Tom

Titolo

Bastard behind the lines : the extraordinary story of Jock McLaren's escape from Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese / / Tom Gilling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, New South Wales : , : Allen & Unwin, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-76106-103-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

940.5426

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Pacific Ocean

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like it.' Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. He escaped Singapore twice, participated in numerous raids on the Japanese in small, armed coastal vessels and was so successful in his land and sea guerrilla actions to disrupt enemy operations that the Japanese eventually placed a bounty on his head. In command of a 26-foot whaleboat called The Bastard, McLaren sailed into Japanese controlled ports in broad daylight, shot up the supply vessels and piers with machine guns and mortar, then turned tail and ran. He also made many solo forays into Japanese held areas to gather intelligence for the US and Australian high commands. Eventually he was transferred to the sabotage Z Special Unit, the joint Allied Special Forces unit formed to operate behind enemy lines. But his extraordinary feats and death-defying courage went beyond his secret missions. One of the many tales told of McLaren was the removal of his own appendix without anaesthetic and with the use of a mirror and an 'ordinary knife'. Action-packed and surprising, A Bastard Between the Lines gives rich life to one of Australia's great World War II diggers.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910263035803321

Titolo

International multilingual research journal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, NJ : , : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, , 2007-

[Abingdon, UK] : , : Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1931-3160

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

404

Soggetti

Bilingualism

Multilingualism - Research

Contrastive linguistics

Multilingualism

Sociolinguistics

Literacy

Linguistique contrastive

Multilinguisme

Sociolinguistique

Alphabétisation

Multilinguisme - Recherche

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed