Author: Allan S. Walker
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Australia in the War of 1939-45. Vol. 3. The Island Campaigns
Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 5, Medical, Vol 3 - The Island Campaigns
Island campaigns: Australia in the war of 1939-1945: volume 3
Australia in the War of 1939 - 1945
Author: Allan S. Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Island Campaigns
Author: Allan Seymour Walker
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Australia in the War of 1939-1945: The island campaigns, by A.S. Walker
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Australia in the War of 1939-1945 Vol. VII: The Final Campaigns
Author: Gavin Long
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783310012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This volume concludes the Army Series. It describes the Australian Army campaigns in the last months of 1944 and in 1945. It tells the full story of the fighting in Bougainville, New Britain, round Wewak, at Balikpapan and Tarakan and in British Borneo.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783310012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This volume concludes the Army Series. It describes the Australian Army campaigns in the last months of 1944 and in 1945. It tells the full story of the fighting in Bougainville, New Britain, round Wewak, at Balikpapan and Tarakan and in British Borneo.
The Island Campaigns
Author: Allan Seymour Walker
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Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Shadows on the Track
Author: Jan McLeod
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1925675912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
At Templeton’s Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: ‘One wonders why all this strife should be … these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers’. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th Australian Field Ambulance, Kennedy was unenviably well-placed to reflect on the futility of war. The Australian Army was woefully unprepared to fight a medical war in Papua and the soldiers paid the price. Almost 30,000 soldiers suffered from illness and tropical diseases, and an estimated 6000 were killed or wounded during the six-month campaign. These statistics have traditionally been represented as unavoidable consequences of fighting a war in a place such as Papua. This book disputes that narrative. Death and disease were inevitable outcomes, but the scale of the suffering was not. The medical challenges presented in Papua were extreme – they were not insurmountable. Shadows on the Track considers a wide range of issues that impacted on the health of the Australian soldiers before, during and after the Papuan campaign was fought and won. The strengths, successes, shortcomings and failures of the medical campaign are identified, analysed and evaluated. The focus on the front-line medical personnel – the men of the field ambulance units – brings a new perspective to the battles of the Kokoda Track, Milne Bay and the Beachheads. Shining a light on these Australians who tended the sick, mended the wounded and buried the dead in Papua makes stepping out of the shadows a little easier.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1925675912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
At Templeton’s Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: ‘One wonders why all this strife should be … these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers’. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th Australian Field Ambulance, Kennedy was unenviably well-placed to reflect on the futility of war. The Australian Army was woefully unprepared to fight a medical war in Papua and the soldiers paid the price. Almost 30,000 soldiers suffered from illness and tropical diseases, and an estimated 6000 were killed or wounded during the six-month campaign. These statistics have traditionally been represented as unavoidable consequences of fighting a war in a place such as Papua. This book disputes that narrative. Death and disease were inevitable outcomes, but the scale of the suffering was not. The medical challenges presented in Papua were extreme – they were not insurmountable. Shadows on the Track considers a wide range of issues that impacted on the health of the Australian soldiers before, during and after the Papuan campaign was fought and won. The strengths, successes, shortcomings and failures of the medical campaign are identified, analysed and evaluated. The focus on the front-line medical personnel – the men of the field ambulance units – brings a new perspective to the battles of the Kokoda Track, Milne Bay and the Beachheads. Shining a light on these Australians who tended the sick, mended the wounded and buried the dead in Papua makes stepping out of the shadows a little easier.
The Unnecessary War
Author: Peter Charlton
Publisher: South Melbourne : Macmillan Company of Australia
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: South Melbourne : Macmillan Company of Australia
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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