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Hardcover:
9781921215346 | Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd, August 1, 2009, cover price $49.95
Product Description: In late 1945, Australia eagerly put up its hand to join the American-led military occupation of war-devastated Japan: the old enemy was still hated, yet the Australian involvement was motivated by ideals of democratic reconstruction rather than retribution...read more
Hardcover:
9781443803397, titled "Occupying the "Other": Australia and Military Occupations from Japan to Iraq" | Cambridge Scholars Pub, March 1, 2009, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: In late 1945, Australia eagerly put up its hand to join the American-led military occupation of war-devastated Japan: the old enemy was still hated, yet the Australian involvement was motivated by ideals of democratic reconstruction rather than retribution.
Product Description: The cultural bridge that war has formed between Australia and the world is discussed in this important anthology. From the Sudan in 1885 to Afghanistan in 2001, these lively essays connect war and travel in the observations of writers such as "Banjo" Paterson, George Johnston, Nancy Wake, John Pilger, and Peter Weir...read more
Paperback:
9780522850871 | Melbourne Univ Pr, September 28, 2004, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The cultural bridge that war has formed between Australia and the world is discussed in this important anthology.
Product Description: Robin Gerster lived and worked in Tokyo while Japan was reverberating with the shocks and aftershocks of political, bureaucratic, financial and social scandal. Here he presents a picture of Japan at a traumatic time in its history. He also ponders the travel experience itself. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780522848632 | Melbourne Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Robin Gerster lived and worked in Tokyo while Japan was reverberating with the shocks and aftershocks of political, bureaucratic, financial and social scandal.
Product Description: "An engagingly readable, entertaining yet scholarly survey of the Australian war mythology. An adventurous, but meticulous study ...this is a book that bayonets a too-long-held myth." - "Judges' Report, 1988 Age "Book of the Year"" "...read more
Hardcover:
9780522843361 | Melbourne Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $34.95 | also contains Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life | About this edition: "An engagingly readable, entertaining yet scholarly survey of the Australian war mythology.
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