The Cowra Breakout

The riveting story of the missing piece of Australia's World War II history, told by bestselling historian Mat McLachlan ( Walking with the Anzacs , Gallipoli: The Battlefield Guide ). During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, Japanese prisoners of war were held in a POW camp. By August 1944, over a thousand were interned and on the icy night of August 5th they staged one of the largest prison breakouts in history, launching the only land battle of World War II to be