Product Description: One American soldier called it "a green hell on earth." Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps-New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops...read more

Product Description: Visual history of the Allied battles for New Guinea during 1942-44.Hundreds of photos of this important Pacific theater campaign showing soldiers, vehicles, weapons and equipment, terrain, living conditions, medical care, prisoners, and much moreCaptions expertly describe photos and narrate the major events of the campaignPerfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History SeriesIdeal reference for military history fans, scholars, modelers, and reenactor...read more

Discusses the history and culture of the Czech Republic and Slovakia and describes the attractions in each country

Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in New Guinea during World War II, from invasion in 1942 to the brutal end game in 1945. Besides giving new perspectives on the Kokoda campaign, the book covers the battles that preceded and those that followed, most of which have previously received scant attention. Phillip Bradley has conducted extensive research on the official and private records from Australia, the US, and Japan, and as well as these perspectives, shows those of the Papua New Guineans. He has also conducted wide-ranging interviews with veterans, and made extensive use of Japanese prisoner interrogation records. The text is further illuminated by the author's deep familiarity with the New Guinea battlefields, and is well illustrated with photographs, many previously unpublished, and maps. Hundreds of thousands of Australians, Phillip's father among them, fought in New Guinea and many never returned. Hell's Battlefield tells their story, and the battles they fought in, that raged on land, in the air, and at sea.

Product Description: Experience Ellis Joness journey as a soldier in World War Two. You will laugh and cry as you are captivated by this riveting account of sorrow, heartbreak, joy, and celebration.

April 14, 1922 - November 25, 2007 Ellis, fondly known to many as Chief was proudly named after the man that taught him many of life's lessons. He was a true outdoors man; an avid Sailor sailing both in the Bay and out of the Golden Gate enjoying the freedom and skills it took to successfully handle a sailing vessel. When given a choice between the sea and the mountains it was the love of the back-country that came first. Beginning as a child, Ellis spent time hiking out of Kennedy Meadows in the Emigrant Wilderness of California. He continued this tradition through his life spending time each year in the back-country with friends, neighbors, children and later grandchildren sharing experiences, life-lessons and entrenching a lifelong love of the wilderness that have changed the lives of so many. To Chief, this was "God's Country". He spent his later years with his large family enjoying the stories of others and telling stories of his own. You could expect to find him in his yard from early in the morning after his large breakfast to the afternoon. The simple enjoyments in life were truly embraced by this amazing man.

Product Description: The successful use of strategic U.S. air power in the South West Pacific during World War II enabled Gen. Douglas MacArthur to advance from Australia to Japan. This book examines the inexorable thrust of the general's U.S. Army's 5th Air Force, under air commander Gen...read more

Describes General Douglas MacArthur's remarkable victory over entrenched Japanese forces in New Guinea during World War II despite understrength, illness-wracked, and battle-weary U.S. and Australian forces, a lack of cooperation from the U.S. Navy, and armament and supply problems. Original. 12,500 first printing.

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The author recounts his World War II experiences stationed in Australia as an American Air Force pilot (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is the story of a man's journey through the New Guinea jungle during WWII to solve the mystery of why American B-24 Liberator bombers were crashing in clear weather under no hostile action. 50 b&w photos.

Product Description: Edwards Park, WWII fighter pilot and one of the founders of Smithsonian magazine recounts his experiences as a young American flier in a backwater of the war--the jungles of New Guinea. Beaver Squadron's P-39s were badly outmatched by the Japanese Zeroes, but they held the line...read more

A history and account of the war in the New Guinea area, citing generals, commanders, MacArthur, aptitudes, ineptitudes, and the final outcome

Japanese air superiority at New Guinea can only be destroyed if American forces set up a secret base in range of the giant Japanese airbase at Wewak