Format:
1 online resource (vii, 283 pages)
,
Illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781626379510
Content:
In 1942, US and Australian forces waged a brutal war against the Japanese in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Plunged into a primitive, hostile world in which their modes of battle seemed out of place and time, they fought, suffered, hated, starved, and killed in muck and mud. James Carafano's vivid history brings this all to life. Ranging from detailed descriptions of specific battles to accounts of the fates of prisoners and the crucial role played by New Guinea's Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, Carafano chronicles the grueling, and ultimately successful, Allied campaign, telling a tale of war at the very edge of human endurance.
Content:
Intro -- Title page -- copyright page -- dedication -- Contents -- Ch1- A War to Remember -- The Themes of Battle -- Notes -- Ch2- The Allies' War -- Meeting of Minds -- The Aussies' War -- Map: The Second World War Pacific Theater -- Lifeline of a Guiding Idea -- Difficult Choices -- Notes -- Ch3- Japan's War -- Carriers at War -- Tokyo's Way of War -- Victory Disease? -- Fateful Choices -- Map: Japanese Attacks Along the Malay Barrier -- Fight on the Flank -- Aftermath -- Crisis in Command -- Notes -- Ch4- Of Muck and Men -- The Place -- Map: Papua New Guinea -- The Terrain -- Jungle Hollywood -- The Other Place -- Down Under -- Army at Dawn -- Sons of the Rising Sun -- Diggers at Dawn -- Blind War -- Notes -- Ch5- Forward into the Jungle -- The Empire Strikes Back -- Ri Operational Study -- Notes -- Ch6- The Jungle's First Battle -- Next Move -- Forward into Battle -- Day of Battle -- After the Battle -- Notes -- Ch7- Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels -- The Other World -- Photo: Papuan patrol in the highlands -- Natives at War -- Battle for the Mind -- The Manpower War -- View from the Other Side -- Notes -- Ch8- Regulars, by God -- Turning the Tide -- Desperate Hours -- The Grim Face of Battle -- A Fateful Fight -- Victory in Defeat -- Notes -- Ch9- Don't Come Back Alive -- The Upside Down War -- Map: Engagement along the Kokoda Trail Campaign in New Guinea -- The Unsettled War -- No War for Old Men -- Photo: American GIs tend to wounded Aussie -- Ike's Trials -- Weight of War -- Sun Begins to Set -- Battle for Buna -- Photo: Evacuating Australian wounded as Americans move up -- Measure of Men -- Photo: Eichelberger and Blamey at captured Buna Mission -- Notes -- Ch10- An Unfair Fight -- Photo: Caring for a Japanese POW -- Operation Cartwheel -- Setting Sun -- Sinews of War -- The Lifeblood of War -- War from the Clouds -- Empty Skies -- Zero Hour.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781626379428
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Carafano, James, 1955 - Brutal war Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021 ISBN 9781626379428
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA
;
Australien
;
Japan
;
Papua-Neuguinea
;
Pazifikkrieg
;
Dschungelkrieg
;
Geschichte 1942
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