| ISBN |
0143790021 (paperback)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9780143790020 (paperback)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
391.6243
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| 個人著者標目 |
Helliwell, Christine,
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| 本タイトル |
Semut :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
the untold story of a secret Australian operation in WWII Borneo /
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| 著者名 |
Christine Helliwell.
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| その他のタイトル |
Semut : the untold story of a secret Australian operation in World War two Borneo.
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
[Australia] :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Michael Joseph,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
2021,
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| 数量 |
562 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some colour) ;
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| 大きさ |
24 cm.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [519]-542) and index.
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| 内容注記 |
1. 'This Eden of mixed blessings -- 2. The Japanese occupation -- Part I. Beginnings -- 3. Planning -- 4. Arrival -- 5. To the Baram -- Part II. The Baram River -- 6. First moves -- 7. Advance downriver -- 8. Ambush as Marudi -- 9. Triumph and threat -- 10. The sacking -- Part III. The Rejang River -- 11. To the Rejang -- 12. Massacre at Pasir Nai -- 13. Battle for Kapit -- 14. Downriver to Song -- 15. Chaos in Kanowit -- 16. End of the river -- Epilogue.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
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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| 団体件名 |
Australia. -- Australian Army.
-- Inter-Allied Services Department. |
| 一般件名 |
Dayak (Bornean people)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Borneo. |
| 地名件名 |
Borneo.
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| 資料情報1 |
『Semut :
the untold story of a secret Australian operation in WWII Borneo /』 Christine Helliwell. Michael Joseph, 2021,
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/391.6/H47/S
資料コード：7116704176）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352060306 |
