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Melbourne, VIC, Australia: MacMillan Company of Australia, 1983. Jacket has general wear to edges plus fading to spine. Lean to spine. 188 pages with b/w illustrations. Australian units fighting in Bougainville, northern New Guinea and Borneo in the last year of the war. . Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The unnecessary war: Island campaigns of the South-West Pacific, 1944-45 Hardcover - 1983
by Charlton, Peter
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- Title The unnecessary war: Island campaigns of the South-West Pacific, 1944-45
- Author Charlton, Peter
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- Edition First Edition
- Pages 188
- Publisher MacMillan, Melbourne
- Date 1983
- ISBN 9780333356289
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Melbourne AUS: Macmillan, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, b&w illustrations. The last year of the Pacific war cost more than a thousand Australian lives in campaigns that are today almost impossible to justify either militarily or politically. The soldiers doing the fighting and the dying thought they were participating in a 'politicians' war'. They were not. They were fighting a general's war. Record # 378357
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THE UNNECESSARY WAR: Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45
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South Melbourne, Macmillan first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The last year of the Pacific war cost more than a thousand Australian lives in campaigns that are today almost impossible to justify either militarily or politically. The soldiers doing the fighting and the dying thought they were participating in a 'politicians' war'. They were not. They were fighting a general's war. 225 x 150mm., pp. 6 (prelim.), 188, b/w plates, maps, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, medium creasing on top back. NEAR FINE/VG ISBN: 0333356284
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Melbourne: Macmillan, 1983. 188pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Or green cloth in jacket. sPINE FADED, LIGHT foxing/toning to edges. The campaigns on Bouganville, in northern New Guinea and Borneo in the last year of the war cost more than 1000 Australian lives. The author looks at the political background to these campaigns and the principle personalities involved. Using official records, documents, diaries, letters and interviews he sets the soldier's stories against the background of the decisions that took them there.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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Unnecessary War, The: Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45.
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MacMillan, Australia, 1983. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY""The campaigns on Bouganville, in northern New Guinea and Borneo in the last year of the war cost more than 1000 Australian lives. The author looks critically at the political background to these campaigns and the principal personalities involved.""First Edition. 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. World War 2. Pacific campaigns. Military operations by Australian military forces, 1944-1945 World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia #121223 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Near Fine
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London: Angus and Robertson, 1976. 1st edition. pictorial hard cover. VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear and edge wear to covers./No Jacket. Illustrated by Agnes Molnar. 25 cm.
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