| Entry Text: | McCARTHY, Dudley. Southwest Pacific Area-First Year: Kokoda to Wau (Australia in the War of 1939-45. Series 1, Army: vol. 5). xiv, 656p., illus., index. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1959.
Covers the worst year of the war, when an invasion of Australia seemed imminent but was halted by the desperate battles in New Guinea. Some background information on naval affairs. |
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