The Final Campaigns
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: moderate insect damage to board, internally sound.
In the dying days of the Second World War in the Pacific, Australian forces fought some of their most gruelling and strategically complex battles — a story told with meticulous authority in The Final Campaigns. Gavin Long chronicles the closing chapters of Australia's war against Japan, detailing the hard-fought operations across Borneo, Bougainville, and New Guinea, where Allied troops pushed relentlessly against a deeply entrenched enemy even as the broader war drew to its inevitable conclusion. With the precision of a trained historian and the narrative clarity of a seasoned correspondent, Long reconstructs the command decisions, tactical engagements, and human cost of campaigns that have too often been overshadowed by the grand theatres of Europe and the central Pacific. As the seventh and final volume of the official Australian series Australia in the War of 1939–1945, this work stands as an indispensable pillar of the nation's military historiography, published under the authoritative aegis of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Long's prose is disciplined yet vivid, drawing on official records, personal accounts, and his own wartime experience as a correspondent to construct a portrait of soldiers who fought with extraordinary tenacity when victory, for many, already seemed assured. For anyone seeking to understand the full arc of Australia's wartime sacrifice, this volume poses a haunting question: what does it mean to fight — and die — in a war that the world has already begun to forget?
Author: Gavin Long
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Australian War Memorial
Genre: WW2
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: moderate insect damage to board, internally sound.
In the dying days of the Second World War in the Pacific, Australian forces fought some of their most gruelling and strategically complex battles — a story told with meticulous authority in The Final Campaigns. Gavin Long chronicles the closing chapters of Australia's war against Japan, detailing the hard-fought operations across Borneo, Bougainville, and New Guinea, where Allied troops pushed relentlessly against a deeply entrenched enemy even as the broader war drew to its inevitable conclusion. With the precision of a trained historian and the narrative clarity of a seasoned correspondent, Long reconstructs the command decisions, tactical engagements, and human cost of campaigns that have too often been overshadowed by the grand theatres of Europe and the central Pacific. As the seventh and final volume of the official Australian series Australia in the War of 1939–1945, this work stands as an indispensable pillar of the nation's military historiography, published under the authoritative aegis of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Long's prose is disciplined yet vivid, drawing on official records, personal accounts, and his own wartime experience as a correspondent to construct a portrait of soldiers who fought with extraordinary tenacity when victory, for many, already seemed assured. For anyone seeking to understand the full arc of Australia's wartime sacrifice, this volume poses a haunting question: what does it mean to fight — and die — in a war that the world has already begun to forget?