In the Eye of the Storm : Commanding the Desert Rats in the Gulf War

1st edition dust jacket As New octavo xvi + 272pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., index, February 1942. The Japanese invasion of Timor has begun and attempts to evacuate a group of 29 Australian airmen, charged with keeping an airfield operational until the last moment, are thwarted. Under the leadership of Bryan Rofe, a 24-year-old meteorological officer, the airmen make for remote jungle along the northwest coast. All attempts to rescue the group fail. Malaria-ravaged and starving, these men are taken to the limits of their endurance for 58 days.