The unnecessary war: Island campaigns of the South-West Pacific, 1944-45 Tapa dura - 1983

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

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

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.

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

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.