Research Catalog

Title

The third force : ANGAU's New Guinea war, 1942-46 / Alan Powell.

Author

Powell, Alan, 1936-

Publication

South Melbourne, Vic. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Provides a unique history of Australia's Papa New Guinean interaction with Australian and American Armed Forces in the Second World War; provides a political and military history of New Guinea's war record and colonial administration, as well.

Series Statement

The Australian Army history series

Uniform Title

Australian Army history series.

Subjects

• Australia
• Papua New Guinea
• To 1999
• World War > (1939-1945)
• Military history
• History
• Australien > Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit
• Australia New Guinea Administrative Unit
• Australia New Guinea Administrative Unit History
• Papua-Neuguinea
• Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1975
• Australie > Histoire militaire > 20e siècle
• Australia > History, Military > 20th century
• Geschichte 1942-1946
• Kolonialisme
• Krijgsmacht
• Zweiter Weltkrieg
• Politics and government
• 15.90 history of Australia and Oceania
• Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
• Papua New Guinea > Politics and government > To 1975
• World War, 1939-1945 > Papua New Guinea

Genre/Form

• History
• Military history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-284) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Land, peoples and organisation -- ANGAU in the early campaigns -- The later campaigns, 1943-45 -- ANGAU's Australians -- ANGAU's papuans and New Guineans -- The end of ANGAU.

ISBN

• 0195516397
• 9780195516395

LCCN

2003464681

OCLC

• 53173145
• SCSB-11649501

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library