THE UNNECESSARY WAR: Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45
by CHARLTON, Peter
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0333356284
- ISBN 13
- 9780333356289
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About This Item
South Melbourne, Macmillan first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The last year of the Pacific war cost more than a thousand Australian lives in campaigns that are today almost impossible to justify either militarily or politically. The soldiers doing the fighting and the dying thought they were participating in a 'politicians' war'. They were not. They were fighting a general's war. 225 x 150mm., pp. 6 (prelim.), 188, b/w plates, maps, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, medium creasing on top back. NEAR FINE/VG ISBN: 0333356284
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- EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS (AU)
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- Title
- THE UNNECESSARY WAR: Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45
- Author
- CHARLTON, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- first edition - hard cover in dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333356284
- ISBN 13
- 9780333356289
- Publisher
- South Melbourne, Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1983
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