Sarah's Library

19/5 - Interesting story of a mission that I'd never heard of, and neither it seems according to the author's research had most of the rest of Australia.  Everything about the mission was kept so secret that once the participants started passing away any knowledge or memory was lost, leaving only the occasional family anecdote passed down through the generations.  I liked the description of the Australian's guerilla actions harrying the Italians, never letting them rest.  Keeping them constantly on the run and when they would reach one of the many forts they had built all over the Ethiopian countryside attacking them all night long, stopping them from having any peace - in the end forcing a lot of the Italian regiments to surrender despite their far superior numbers.  It reminded me a lot of John Marsden's fictional Tomorrow, When the War Began series which featured a group of Australian teenagers making guerilla style attacks on an invading force in mostly outback Australia - attacking convoys, blowing up bridges, picking off soldiers one by one without alerting the majority of the force to their prescence.  Recommended to readers who are interested in military battles and the history of Australia in WWII.