D-Day New Guinea: The extraordinary story of the battle for Lae and the greatest combined airborne and amphibious operation of the Pacific War
(Allen & Unwin April 2019)
by Phillip Bradley
336 pages w/ photos & maps - paperback
"The most complete telling of one of the most significant campaigns of the Pacific War and Australia's role in it."
'
Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea' - Japanese military saying
"The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France with an amphibious landing combined with the first successful large-scale Allied airborne operation of the war. But this is not just a book about a successful military campaign that changed the course of the war in New Guinea. It also brings together the extraordinary stories of the Australian, American and Japanese participants in the battle, and of the fight against the cloying jungle, the raging rivers and soaring mountain ranges that made New Guinea such a daunting battlefield."
Phillip Bradley brings a compelling clarity, humanity and new insight into a little known but crucial Australian battle of the Pacific War.
Author bio:
PHILLIP BRADLEY, author of the ground-breaking
Hell's Battlefield, is a leading Australian military historian. He lived in Lae for two years and has spent many years since researching the battle for Lae."
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