| Main Title: |
To Salamaua / Phillip Bradley. |
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| Author: |
Bradley, Phillip, 1955-
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| Year: |
2010. |
| Collation: |
xvii, 372 p. : ill., maps, portraits, notes bib., index, hbk ; 24 cm. |
| Summary: |
From Moutn Tambu to Old Vickers and across the Francsico River, the Australians and their American allies fought a desperate struggle to keep the Imperial Japanese army diverted from the strategic prize of Lae. |
| Subject: |
World War, 1939-1945
Military history
War in the Pacific
New Guinea
Australian Army
Salamaua Army Base
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| Series: |
Australian army campaigns series ;
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| ISBN: |
9780521763905 (hbk.) |
| Notes: |
Includes index. Contents: Introduction; 1. Death in the Bismarck Sea; 2. Opposing forces; 3. Warfe's Tigers; 4. Supply lines; 5. Mubo stalemate; 6. On Lababia Ridge; 7. On Bobdubi Ridge; 8. Yanks; 9. Mubo falls; 10. 'A bit of a stoush'; 11. The forbidden mountain; 12. Roosevelt Ridge; 13. Old Vickers; 14. Komiatum Ridge; 15. Across the Frisco; 16. Salamaua falls.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-359) and index.
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