Brough's Books - New Guinea Campaigns

New Guinea Campaigns

Books on WWII in Papua New Guinea including Bougainville and Guadalcanal
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Angels Twenty : A Young American Flier a Long Way from Home
by Edwards Park
Hardcover - 224 pages Updated edition
McGraw-Hill; ISBN: 0075821257

Alone on Guadalcanal : A Coastwatcher's Story
by Martin Clemens, Allan R. Millett (Introduction)
Listed under Guadalcanal

Attack on Yamamoto
by Carroll V. Glines
(Hardcover - April 1993)
Special Order

Beyond Pongani Mission
by Staff Sgt. Robert James Bable
Book Description: A collection of factual stories that stem from my term serving as a team member of the 32nd Division - Headquarters Message Center forward echelon, while we were engaged in the Battle of Buna, New Guinea 1942-43. This true story is one of a disastrous fiasco that enveloped American GI's in the early stages of the offensive against the Japanese forces in New Guinea. Contains many original photographs and maps.
(Paperback)

Bougainville, 1943-1945 : The Forgotten Campaign
by Harry A. Gailey
Hardcover - 237 pages (September 1991)
Univ Pr of Kentucky; ISBN: 0813117488

Bravery Above Blunder: The 9th Australian Division at Finschhafen, Sattelberg and Sio
by John Coates
This book describes the 9th Australian Division's role in the Allied counter-offensive against Japan in northern New Guinea in 1943-44. There has been little written about this campaign. Lieutenant-General John Coates, a former Chief of the General Staff, Australian Army, has interviewed veterans and studied Australian, American, and Japanese records to describe and analyze the campaign. Amazon.com
(Hardcover)

Challenge for the Pacific : The Bloody Six-Month Battle of Guadalcanal
by Robert Leckie
Listed under Guadalcanal
 

The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
by James Campbell
A harrowing portrait of a largely forgotten campaign that pushed one battalion to the limits of human suffering.

Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division’s “Ghost Mountain Boys” were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign in World War II: to march over the 10,000-foot Owen Stanley Mountains to protect the right flank of the Australian army during the battle for New Guinea. Reminiscent of the classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, The Ghost Mountain Boys is part war diary, part extreme-adventure tale, and—through letters, journals, and interviews—part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced. Theirs is one of the great untold stories of the war. 

Paperback from Broadway
2008-

 
Love, War, and the 96th Engineers (Colored) : The World War II New Guinea Diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson
by Hyman Samuelson (Editor), Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (Editor)
Hardcover - October 1995

MacArthur's Jungle War : The 1944 New Guinea Campaign
(Modern War Studies)
by Stephen R. Taaffe
When General Douglas MacArthur led Allied troops into the jungles of New Guinea in World War II, he placed his armies in a position to fulfill his personal promise to liberate the Philippines. Here, historian Stephen Taaffe writes the definitive history of that assault, showing why it succeeded, what it contributed to the overall strategy against Japan, and offers a balanced assessment of MacArthur's leadership and limitations. The Publisher.
Hardcover - 314 pages
University Press of Kansas; ISBN: 0700608702

Munda Trail : The New Georgia Campaign
by Eric M. Hammel
Paperback - 292 pages
Pacifica Pr; ISBN: 093555338X

New Guinea and the Marianas : March 1944-August 1944
(History of United States Naval Operations in World War II,  Volume 8)
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Book Sales
Hardcover - 435 pages

New Guinea Skies: A Fighter Pilot's View of World War II
by Wayne P. Rothgeb
The author flew 139 combat missions in P-38 Lightnings with the 39th Fighter Squadron of the 5th Air Force
Hardcover: 261 pages 
Publisher: Iowa State University Press; 1 edition (September 30, 1992) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0813808367 

A Rape of Justice: MacArthur and the New Guinea Hangings
by Walter A. Luszki
A minor work on an obscure event in which MacArthur played an even more obscure part: he approved the verdict. The story could be safely edited down to article length. Db.
Hardcover: 183 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.66 x 8.78 x 5.67
Madison Books; ISBN: 0819183482; (July 11, )
 

South Pacific Destroyer : The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf
by Russell Sydnor Crenshaw
Hardcover - 336 pages
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 155750136X
 
The Siege of Rabaul
by Henry Sakaida
Book Description:
Rabaul, on New Britain Island, was the cornerstone of Japanese power in the Southwest Pacific island campaign. It was eventually reduced by Allied airpower and then isolated and left to wither. Matching Japanese diaries and interviews with similar material from the Allies, Sakaida records the final epic air battles of early 1944, which broke the back of Rabaul's aerial might. Sakaida also details the ordeal of the abandoned Japanese units and their ingenious efforts to keep a guerrilla air force operating until the end of the war in 1945. Many rare photos from Japanese and American sources vividly depict battle conditions, detail encounters with Allied adversaries, and provide perspectives from both sides. 
Paperback: 96 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.41 x 11.01 x 8.55
Specialty Pr; ISBN: 1883809096;
 
Seahorse Soldiering: MacArthur s Amphibian Engineers From New Guinea To Nagoya
Seahorse Soldiering: MacArthur's Amphibian Engineers From New Guinea To Nagoya
by Robert M. Watson Jr.
Paperback from Xlibris Corporation
 
History of United States Naval Operations in WWII, Vol VIII, New Guinea and the Marianas
by Sameul Eliot Morrison
Hardcover from Atlantic -Little Brown
 
Advance in the Pacific U.S. Battle Pictures New Guinea to the Philippines ( WWII)
Hardcover
 
The South Pacific Mandate Campaigns of WWII 1943-1945. Northern New Guinea.
by Captain WHY (Bill) ED (RET'D). PHILLIPS
Paperback from Phillips Publications, 2000.
 
Battle Orders Japanese Army in WWII The South Pacific and New Guinea 1942-1944 Osprey Books
Battle Orders Japanese Army in WWII The South Pacific & New Guinea 1942-1944 Osprey Books
from OSPB14
 
Combat Recon: 5th Air Force Images from the Sw Pacific 1943-45
Combat Recon: 5th Air Force Images from the SW Pacific 1943-45
by Robert Stava
Hardcover from Schiffer Publishing
 
Small Things Greatly
Small Things Greatly
by Galen C Dukes
Kindle Edition
 
The Fight For New Guinea, General Douglas MacArthur s First Offensive
The Fight For New Guinea, General Douglas MacArthur's First Offensive
by Pat Robinson
Hardcover from Random House
 
Love, War, and the 96th Engineers (Colored): The World War II New Guinea Diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson
Love, War, and the 96th Engineers (Colored): The World War II New Guinea Diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson

Paperback from University of Illinois Press

 

 
 

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