Bloody Buna
The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942
$34.21
- Paperback
440 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2023
Summary
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna.
The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point for the Australians, but the fighting was far from over. Within days, the battles for the three Japanese beachheads would commence. These battles where the first combined large-scale oper…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923004702 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923004700 |
| Author: | David W. Cameron |
| Publisher: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Imprint: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 440 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 646g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 234mm x 159mm |
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About The Author
David W. Cameron
David W. Cameron is a Canberra-based author specializing in Australian military and convict history, as well as human and primate evolution. He has published over 60 internationally peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. David received First Class Honours in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Sydney and completed his Ph.D. in Palaeoanthropology at the Australian National University.
He has held prestigious research fellowships, including an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship at ANU’s School of Archaeology and an ARC QEII Fellowship at the University of Sydney’s Department of Anatomy and Histology. David has led and participated in numerous international fieldwork projects across Australia, the Middle East (Turkey, Jordan, Israel, UAE), Europe (Hungary), and Asia (Japan, Vietnam, India), and has contributed to conferences and museum studies worldwide.
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