Gona's Gone!
The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942
$30.39
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2023
Summary
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track to the north coast of Papua New Guinea, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachheads at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The Japanese were determined to fight to the last man in the defence of these critical positions.
The first beach to be captured by the Australians was Gona, which fell on 9 December after bitter fighting. This, howev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922896629 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922896624 |
| Author: | David W. Cameron |
| Publisher: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Imprint: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 250mm x 200mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
David W. Cameron
David W. Cameron is a Canberra-based author who has written several books on Australian military and convict history, as well as human and primate evolution, including over 60 internationally peer-reviewed papers for various journals and book chapters. He received 1st Class Honours in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Sydney and later went on to complete his PhD in palaeoanthropology at the Australian National University. He is a former Australian Research Council (ARC) Post Doctorial Fellow at the Australian National University (School of Archaeology) and an ARC QEII Fellow at the University of Sydney (Department of Anatomy and Histology). He has participated and led several international fieldwork teams in Australia, the Middle East (Turkey, Jordan, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates), Europe (Hungary) and Asia (Japan, Vietnam and India) and has participated in many conferences and museum studies throughout the world.
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