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Military History

Catch up to Kokoda

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August 2005, no. 273

Kokoda by Paul Ham

HarperCollins, $45 hb, 602 pp

Military History

Catch up to Kokoda

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August 2005, no. 273

In Dudley McCarthy’s volume in the Australian official history of World War II, subtitled Kokoda to Wau (1959), there is a wonderfully evocative passage that sets the fighting in Papua New Guinea in context:

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John Coates (1932–2018) was Chief of the General Staff from 1990 to 1992 and later became an author specialising in military history.

Kokoda

Kokoda

by Paul Ham

HarperCollins, $45 hb, 602 pp

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