Guerrilla Tactics

Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column. Drawing on his military experience, this is one of six manuals written for soldiers and civilians in 1942, when invasion by the Japanese seemed imminent.

Here Mr Idriess gives in illustrative detail the technique of guerrilla warfare under Australian conditions. As w...