Description

Title: Japanese Army Operations in the South Pacific Area

Translator: Bullard, Steve

Condition: Near Mint

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2007

ISBN: 9780975190487

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 260 pages

Comments: A translated account of the Japanese New Britain and Papua campaigns, 1942-43. The first published translation of sections of the ‘War history series’ (Senshi sosho), the official history of Japanese involvement in the Second World War. The text covers the invasion of Rabaul in January 1942, the battles along the Kokoda Trail and at Milne Bay, and the destruction of the Japanese forces at Buna, Gona and Giruwa in January 1943.

From the library of the late Brigadier Ian Bryant AM. His signature is on the title page.