Bloody Buna. The campaign that halted the Japanese invasion of Australia. ...

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Canberra: A.N.U. Press 1975. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi 222pp.). With 16 full-page plates and 9 maps drawn by Arthur S. Hardyman. 1st Aust. ed. Added: The original prospectus loosely inserted. NOTE: After the Japanese were driven back in the Kokoda campaign Australian and American troops recaptured Buna on the north coast of New Guinea in January 1943 loosing over 3000 killed and almost 5500 wounded in one of the most desperate campaigns of the entire Pacific War.