On Target: With The American And Australian Anti-Aircraft Brigade In New Guinea
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
In the sweltering jungles and contested skies of New Guinea, a remarkable story of Allied cooperation and anti-aircraft warfare unfolds — On Target: With the American and Australian Anti-Aircraft Brigade in New Guinea is a first-hand chronicle of the men who manned the guns against Japanese air power in one of the Pacific War's most gruelling theatres. Written and illustrated by the soldiers themselves — the men of the Front Line Forces — this account presents the raw, authentic voice of combat, detailing the daily triumphs, hardships, and camaraderie of American and Australian anti-aircraft crews fighting side by side under the South-West Pacific Command. Far more than a military record, this volume stands as a rare piece of wartime testimony, produced from within the heat of battle and suffused with the grit and dark humour that characterised Allied troops of the era. Its illustrations and prose, crafted by the very men who lived the experience, give it an intimacy and authority that no official dispatch could replicate. Published by Angus and Robertson in Sydney and London, it represents an exceptional document of Australasian military history — leaving the reader to wonder what other untold stories were forged in the smoke and noise of those forgotten Pacific skies.
Author: Men Of The Front Line Forces
Format: Hardback
Published: 1943, Angus and Robertson Ltd
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
In the sweltering jungles and contested skies of New Guinea, a remarkable story of Allied cooperation and anti-aircraft warfare unfolds — On Target: With the American and Australian Anti-Aircraft Brigade in New Guinea is a first-hand chronicle of the men who manned the guns against Japanese air power in one of the Pacific War's most gruelling theatres. Written and illustrated by the soldiers themselves — the men of the Front Line Forces — this account presents the raw, authentic voice of combat, detailing the daily triumphs, hardships, and camaraderie of American and Australian anti-aircraft crews fighting side by side under the South-West Pacific Command. Far more than a military record, this volume stands as a rare piece of wartime testimony, produced from within the heat of battle and suffused with the grit and dark humour that characterised Allied troops of the era. Its illustrations and prose, crafted by the very men who lived the experience, give it an intimacy and authority that no official dispatch could replicate. Published by Angus and Robertson in Sydney and London, it represents an exceptional document of Australasian military history — leaving the reader to wonder what other untold stories were forged in the smoke and noise of those forgotten Pacific skies.