Item #5141 Australia 1942 End of Innocence. Brian McKINLAY.
Australia 1942 End of Innocence
Australia 1942 End of Innocence

Australia 1942 End of Innocence

Sydney: Collins, 1985. Quarto, white hardcover with black spine lettering, 208 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs and posters, and drawings in both colour and black and white. Spotting on hardcover, dust-jacket, and title leaf, otherwise a good copy in dust-jacket. An account of the combined Australia-American force drove back the Japanese in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 and the conflict between Australian and Japanese forces in Papa New Guinea's Owen Stanley Range in June of the same year. Item #5141

Price (AUD): $65.00

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