The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944-45 (1983) By Peter Charlton
 
The campaigns on Bouganville, in northern New Guinea and Borneo in the last year of the war cost more than 1000 Australian lives. The author looks at the political background to these campaigns and the principle personalities involved. Using official records, documents, diaries, letters and interviews he sets the soldier's stories against the background of the decisions that took them there.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
188 pages
In Good condition