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Title

The bone man of Kokoda : the extraordinary story of Kokichi Nishimura and the Kokoda track / Charles Happell.

Author

Happell, Charles

Publication

Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2008.

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Description

xiii, 272 p. [16] p. of plates. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Kokichi Nishimura was a member of the Japanese Imperial Army, who fought every foot of the Kokoda. He was the only man from his company to survive the Port Morseby campaign. He has spent the past 25 years fulfilling his promise to search for, and return the remains of his fallen comrades.

Alternative Title

Bone man of Kokoda : the extraordinary story of Kokichi Nishimura and the Kokoda Track

Subject

• Nishimura, Kokichi
• Japan. Hohei Rentai, Dai 144
• 1939-1945
• Repatriation of war dead > Japan
• Soldiers > Japan > Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Papua New Guinea
• World War, 1939-1945 > Papua New Guinea > History
• World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 > Japan
• Kokoda Trail (Papua New Guinea) > History

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Kochi Warrior -- 1. Skull -- 2. Childhood -- 3. The soldier -- 4. New Guinea -- 5. Brigade Hill -- 6. Retreat -- 7. White pork, black pork -- 8. Home -- 9. Work -- 10. Holdouts -- 11. Family -- Bone Man -- 12. Touchdown -- 13. Breaking ground -- 14. The lunch box -- 15. Ippongi -- 16. The sailor -- 17. Ashes -- 18. Relics -- 19. Skull II -- 20. Government man -- 21. Return -- 22. Imanishi -- 23. Reunion -- 24. Sachiko -- Epilogue. Last sighting -- Appendix. The list of Brigade Hill dead.

ISBN

9780330424844 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009397908

OCLC

• 234082677
• SCSB-11745472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library