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World War II

New Guinea 1942–44 by Timothy Hall & The Thirtyniners by Peter Charlton

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April 1982, no. 39

New Guinea 1942–44 is frankly disappointing, not only to me but to those veterans of the campaign who have told me that they have read it. I missed New Guinea, but even so I was shocked by Hall’s account of the cannibalism of the Japanese, and retaliatory brutality by Australians. The pity is that Hall had all the potential for a great history, but fluffed it.

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Crank Back On Roller by Donald Stuart

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May 1981, no. 30
Brian Dibble reviews 'Crank Back On Roller' by Donald Stuart

Crank back on roller, belt left front ...’ So begins the sequence. Stuart’s novel, the fifth in a series of six called The Conjuror’s Years, depicts Colin of Drought Foal and Wedgetail View following the instructions for preparing his Vickers gun to fire against the Vichy French in the 1941 AIF invasion of Syria.

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