Title: Signaller Johnston's secret war
Subtitle: New Guinea, 1943-45
First published: 1998
Description: This book is really taken from a diary kept in secret 'as the title suggests'  by the author and helped by the other soldiers.. in fact inside his water bottle!  so his mates carried his water for him and Officers constant searching was never successful. Pinney started in signalling right in the thick of it in northern new guinea in which reallity struck him the first night losing two men who went to the jungle for ablutions and forgot the password ...bang. The officers had wind of his 'smart arse' hidden diary and at one time sent him off on his own to reccy a jap camp  over a swollen creek that had a bridge with a machine gun post  and sgt on watch.
The resulting success of his ability to stay alive..  they put him where he wanted to go  ' commando unit' A fascinating can't put it down account of the hijinks and reallity of  australian  'rangers'.  I've read it twice.. and my local library lost it's edition.. My father was also one of those..  in later stages of the campaign working with US flame thrower units as well as reccy jobs.  Gave me an insight to his time away.  I also met a ranger who knew Pinney.. he told me more that I cannot reveal, about the author. A Great Movie just begging to appear.
Subjects: Campaigns, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction
Places: New Guinea
People: PETER PINNEY
Time periods: NEW GUINEA  BOUGAINVILLE  1943/45
LC classification: PR9619.3.P54 S54 1998