Jungle warriors from Tobruk to Kokoda and beyond, how the Australian Army became the world's most deadly jungle fighting force
Jungle Warriors examines the extraordinary transformation that the Australian Army underwent over the course of the Second World War. During this period the Australian Army transformed itself from a military force totally unprepared for conflict of any kind in 1939, into one of the most professional...
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Allen & Unwin
2014
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Table of Contents:
- 'No military knowledge of the region': 1914-1941
- 'Everything was so different': the 8th division in Malaya
- 'Completely devoid of ideas': the 6th division on Ceylon
- 'Physical fitness is vital': training in Australia, 1942
- 'Jesus Christ! I can't see anything': Milne Bay and Kokoda
- 'Deep in unmapped jungles': 21st bridgade on the Kokoda track
- 'The worst experience of the war': Kokoda to the beachheads
- 'Rain, mud, rottenness, gloom': 17th brigade's Wau-Salamaua campaign
- 'The ideal training ground': Atherton Tableland 1943
- 'No new lessons of importance': the final campaigns