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The Unnecessary War, Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45.
by Charlton, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0333356284
- ISBN 13
- 9780333356289
- Seller
-
Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042012
- Title
- The Unnecessary War, Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45.
- Author
- Charlton, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0333356284
- ISBN 13
- 9780333356289
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Second World war Two WWII Pacific Bouganville Papua New Guinea Borneo Japanese
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pacific; Australian Military; Papua & New Guinea;
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
Lawrence Jones
Biblio member since 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
About Lawrence Jones
I carry a general stock of approx 70000 titles of which only a small percentage is online. Viewing at my Ashmore bookrooms is welcome by appointment. While not specializing I have a good selection of art, natural history, military and surfing in stock. I also have many other non-fiction subjects, as well as approx 10000 paperback fiction titles on hand.
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