Chronicles a little-known episode of World War II in which America's 'Ghost Mountain Boys' endured hardship, malnutrition, disease, and harsh conditions in a forty-two-day march from New Guinea's south coast to the north coast battlefields of Buna.

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Product Description: The story of the five battles that changed Australia forever, this compelling narrative incorporates hundreds of interviews with the soldiers who fought at Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, and Sanananda in 1942 and 1943. Revealed are the very real and engaging experiences of Generals MacArthur and Blamey and other senior Australian commanders who sacrificed many of their senior field officers as scapegoats to protect their own positions, assisted in the making of false legends, and lied about the outcome of the men who fought the battles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The only fully up-to-date examination of this neglected but intriguing campaign of ambushes, flank attacks, and combined operations.

Product Description: InWhere Thousands Fell, Fr. William J. Leonard recounts his experiences as a priest-professor who left his books and put on a uniform so that fighting men might not be without the support of religious faith and practice. He tells the story of indoctrination in Chaplain School, of his first awkward beginnings in a stateside camp, of life aboard a transport threatened by enemy submarines, of heat and malarial mosquitoes and incessant rain in a rear-echelon base deep in the jungles of New Guinea, of the bloody beach-head in the Philippines and the immense effort to mount in Manila the assault on the Japanese homeland, of peace at last and a grateful return to civilian life...read more

Product Description: This revised edition brings to public attention the pivotal role that the 39th Australian Infantry Battalion played in the vital Kokoda Trail battles of 1942.

An in-depth account of the discovery of a crashed American bomber missing for thirty-eight years and the painstaking identification of the plane's passengers