Description

Hardcover, large octavo bound in red cloth, in original red, non price-clipped dust-jacket. 656 pages. Index. Illustrated with photographs and sketch maps. Reprint, second printing. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket protected by acetate wrappers. The fifth volume of the army series of the official history of Australia in the Second World War. The present volume describes the Australian role in the fight on land in the South-West Pacific from mid-1942 to March 1943. Among the operations covered are the Owen Stanley mountains, Milne Bay and round Buna, Gona and Sanananda, in addition to the victorious campaign in Papua, plus guerrilla operations in various areas. But for small tape marks inside covers [from adhesion points of acetate covers] a clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a fine dust-jacket.