Cowra on the Lachlan.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(Cowra NSW: Cowra Shire Council 1988). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (viii 336pp.). With frontisp. numerous full-page b/w plates and maps. Associated ephemera loosely inserted. Fine. NOTE: Local history of settlement at Cowra Rocks on the Lachlan River New South Wales since 1815. Cowra catapulted into world history in August 1944 during the Second World War with a mass break-out of Japanese prisoners of war in which four Australian soldiers and over 200 Japanese were killed.