JUNGLE WARFARE WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY IN THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC

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1944

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Brown linen hard cover with cream lettering, small drawing of jungle soldier enclosed in a circle at bottom of front cover. Frontis: Through the Rain Forest. 208 pages, black and white drawings, maps, sepia colour plates. Contents and Illustrations pages. On the back of title page is the inscription - To the Memory of Fallen Comrades. They gave their lives. For that public gift they received a praise which never ages and a tomb most glorious - not so much the tomb in which they lie but that in which their fame survives to be remembered for ever when occasion comes for word or deed.

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Tells the story of military operations in the jungle, kunai, mountains and swamps of New Guinea. The terrain and climate unike anything experienced by fighting Australians previously and never to be forgotten by those who took part in it.

Albany Historical Society Inc

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