D-Day New Guinea: The Extraordinary Story of the Battle for Lae and the Greatest Combined Airborne and Amphibious Operation of the Pacific War

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY
AS NEW COPY! ‘Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea’ – A Japanese military saying. The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France with an amphibious landing combined with the first successful large scale Allied airborne operation of the war. But this is not just a book about a successful military campaign that changed the course of the war in New Guinea. It also brings together the extraordinary stories of the Australian, American and Japanese participants in the battle, and of the fight against the cloying jungle, the raging rivers and soaring mountain ranges that made New Guinea such a daunting battlefield. Phillip Bradley brings a compelling clarity, humanity and new insight into a little known but crucial Australian battle of the Pacific War.
xiv, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm #101222 Includes bibliographical references (Pages 307-314) and index.
World War, 1939-1945 — Amphibious operations — Papua New Guinea. | World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — New Guinea. | World War, 1939-1945 — Participation, Australian. | World War, 1939-1945 — Participation, American. | World War, 1939-1945 — Participation, Japanese. | Australian