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Index
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
INVASION
1. ‘SEE YOU IN HELL, FELLERS’: NEW BRITAIN AND NEW IRELAND: JANUARY TO APRIL 1942
2. ‘WHACCO’: PORT MORESBY AND SALAMAUA: MARCH TO AUGUST 1942
KOKODA TO MILNE BAY
3. ‘AN ARMY IN RETREAT, MY BOY. NOT VERY PRETTY, IS IT?’: KOKODA TRAIL: JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1942
4. ‘LIKE RATS IN A BAG’: MILNE BAY: AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1942
5. ‘THE EYES OF THE WESTERN WORLD ARE UPON YOU’: KOKODA TRAIL: SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1942
THE PAPUAN BEACHHEADS
6. ‘A MURDEROUS CURTAIN OF LEAD’: GONA: NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1942
7. ‘WHERE ARE MY BOYS?’: BUNA: NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1942
8. DUCIT AMOR PATRIAE: BUNA: DECEMBER 1942 TO JANUARY 1943
9. ‘WE SLEEP AND EAT AMONGST THE DEAD HERE’: SANANANDA: NOVEMBER 1942 TO FEBRUARY 1943
WAU—SALAMAUA
10. ‘THEY CAME LIKE THE RAIN’: WAU: JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1943
11. ‘A HORRIBLE DREAM’: BISMARCK SEA: MARCH 1943
12. ‘HELL, WHAT CHAPS THESE ARE’: BOBDUBI RIDGE: FEBRUARY TO JULY 1943
13. GIVEN UP FOR DEAD: BOBDUBI RIDGE: JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1943
14. ‘COME ON, BOYS’: MOUNT TAMBU: JUNE TO AUGUST 1943
THE NEW GUINEA OFFENSIVES
15. ‘A SENSE OF HELL’: LAE: SEPTEMBER 1943
16. ‘WE WERE JUST BLOODY GOOD’: KAIAPIT: SEPTEMBER 1943
17. ‘I KNOW IT’S HARD, SON, BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE’: MARKHAM AND RAMU VALLEYS: JUNE TO OCTOBER 1943
18. ‘THEY DIDN’T KNOW THE COUNTRY WAS IMPASSABLE’: FINSCHHAFEN TO SAIDOR: SEPTEMBER 1943 TO FEBRUARY 1944
19. ‘SOME BASTARD IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS’: SHAGGY RIDGE: DECEMBER 1943 TO FEBRUARY 1944
ENDGAME
20. A GREAT LEAP: AMERICAN OPERATIONS: AUGUST 1943 TO SEPTEMBER 1944
21. THE WAITING GAME: BOUGAINVILLE: NOVEMBER 1944 TO AUGUST 1945
22. ‘THIS HELLISH BUSINESS DOESN’T MAKE HEADLINE NEWS’: AITAPE TO WEWAK: OCTOBER 1944 TO AUGUST 1945
23. ENDINGS
APPENDIX 1: CASUALTIES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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