Australia 1944-45 : victory in the Pacific / edited by Peter Dean ; foreword by air chief marshal, Sir Angus Houston.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Foreword; Contents; Maps and chart; Figures and table; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Military symbols on maps; Introduction; Part 1 Strategy; Part 2 Australia at war; Part 3 Green Armour and Special Operations; Part 4 The Naval and Air War; Part 5 The New Guinea Campaign; Part 6 The Borneo Campaign; Afterword: And Then Came Peace?; Index; Chapter 1 Advancing National Interests: Deciding Australia's War Strategy, 1944-45; Chapter 2 The Southwest Pacific Area: Military Strategy and Operations, 1944-45.

Chapter 3 Holding on to the Finish: The Japanese Army in the South and Southwest Pacific, 1944-45Chapter 4 The Long Silence: Australian Prisoners of the Japanese; Chapter 5 Total War on the Australian Home Front, 1943-45; Chapter 6 Learning and Adapting for Jungle Warfare, 1942-45: The Australian and British Indian Armies; Chapter 7 Intelligence and Special Operations in the Southwest Pacific, 1942-45; Chapter 8 The RAN at War, 1944-45; Chapter 9 'On the scrap heap of the Yanks': The RAAF in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1944-45.

Chapter 10 'Given a second rate job': Campaigns in Aitape-Wewak and New Britain, 1944-45Chapter 11 More Than Mopping Up: Bougainville; Chapter 12 Amphibious Warfare: Training and Logistics, 1942-45; Chapter 13 'To capture Tarakan': Was Operation Oboe 1 Unnecessary?; Chapter 14 'Unique in the history of the AIF': Operations in British Borneo; Chapter 15 'Calling the tune': Australian and Allied Operations at Balikpapan.

Thoroughly researched and generously illustrated, Australia 1944-45 is the compelling final instalment in Peter Dean's Pacific War series.

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