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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Osmar White was one of the rare breed of front line reporters of World War 2 who not only was in the battles and wrote about the courage and sacrifice of those who fourght in it with lyricism and real sympathy, but who also had a eye for the wider successes and failures of strategy and wrote about that with great honesty. This is an account from his contemporary diaries of the period of the Japanese expansion in New Guinea and the surrounding islands. In small portraits of impossible situations and terrain, of desperate resistance and retreat, he brings the reader around to an appreciation of what was actually achieved by small groups of extraordinarily brave men. But White also saw far ahead of many of his peers that it was disease and the precipitous mountains, that took such a toll on the defenders, which eventually blunted the Japanese thrust, and gave time for allied air power to turn the tide of battle. For Australians, who have a rich history of the achievement of jungle adapted soldier, this is a worthwhile counterpoint - the story of their forces before they learned the lessons of managing disease and jungle warfare and how those lessons were rammed home. Immensely readable and highly recommended. ( ) no reviews | add a review
A story of the jungle and the sea, of man against nature and man against man... Green Armour is the courageous story of fighting men in the swamps and jungles of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. From the earliest days of forlorn hopes to the large-scale, well-organised attacks by land, sea, and air this terrifying first-hand account is distilled from the bloody, despairing experiences of the Australian and American forces in the early days of the Second World War... No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.5426History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- Military History Of World War II Campaigns and battles by theatre PacificLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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