To Kokoda and Beyond: The Story of the 39th Battalion 1941-1943.

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Melbourne University Press 1988. 8vo. Original illustrated boards. Illust. dustjacket. (xviii 268pp.). With num. full-page b/w illustrations and maps. Fine. 1st edition copy of the scarce hardcopy issue. NOTE: The 39th Battalion a Victorian militia unit was the first - and for a time the only - Australian unit to fight the Japanese advancing along the Kokoda Track Papua in 1942. Includes Nominal Roll Honours and Awards and Casualties.