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The Second World War catapulted more than 70,000 young Australians into a war in Indonesia in mid-1945. More than sixty years later the questions remain about why Australians were ever involved, and why nearly 700 had to die. Tim Blue's book examines the attack on Tarakan, a small island off the northeast coast of Borneo, once part of the Netherlands East Indies. Oil from the island was a key target for Japanese forces in their sweep south three years...
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