Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942

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At Templeton's Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: 'One wonders why all this strife should be … these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers'. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th More

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"A compelling chronicle of the Battle of Papua New Guinea with rarely viewed images from World War II... an excellent book." -Naval Historical Foundation The Japanese seizure of Rabaul on New Britain in January More

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A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II-General Douglas Mac Arthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. More

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The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played or failed to play in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea.This is the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific thea More

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Turning the Tide, first published in 1944 as The Jap was Thrashed: An Official Story of the Australian Soldier - First Victor of the "Invincible Jap", is a World War II account of the Australian Army's battle and eventual More

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Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of 'B' Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. More

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Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valley More

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Visual history of the Allied battles for New Guinea during 1942-44. More

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By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sanananda had secured the northern coastlines of Papua and Australia. Australian forces were now poise More