The Unnecessary War

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… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Macmillan, 1983. Pp. [vi]+188, 16 plates, 4 text maps (3 full page), select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, backstrip sunned, small closed tear bottom edge of the back fold, back panel creased; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1983. First edition. *The political background to the military campaigns on Bougainville in northern New Guinea and… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Melbourne: MacMillan, 1983. 1st edition. Fine. octavo. dust jacket 188pp., b/w pls., bibliog., index, Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45, costing over 1000 Australian lives

Melbourne: MacMillan, 1983. 1st edition. Very Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket 188pp., b/w plates, bibliog., index, The Campaigns on Bougainville, northern New Guinea & Borneo which cost over 1000 Australian lives. A Wasteful exercise, the blame for which, the Author lays at the feet of Sir Thomas Blamey

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.