Semut

The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

Christine Helliwell, Christine Helliwell, Dorje Swallow

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Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia
02 July 2021

Second World War; Audiobooks - Non-fiction

March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island's indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know little about Dayaks, other than that they were once headhunters who might kill them on arrival. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face.

This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than one hundred Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on the operation's activities along two of Borneo's great rivers - the Baram and Rejang - this audiobook provides a detailed military history of Semut II's and Semut III's brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese, and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation.

By: Christine Helliwell
Read by: Christine Helliwell, Dorje Swallow
Imprint: Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 273g
ISBN: 9781867544920
ISBN 10: 186754492X
Publication Date: 02 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

'The incredible, little-known story of Australia's top secret 'Z' operations deep inside Japanese lines in Sarawak in 1945 ... A superb read, brilliantly researched, written in prose as sharp as a machete.' -- Paul Ham