Kokoda

📖 The Scoop

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Maps, tables and figures -- Photographs -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's note -- Abbreviations -- 1 Kokoda: The immortal trail -- Part 1 Turning points -- 2 War across the world -- 3 Confrontation in the Coral Sea: Admiral Nimitz's plan for a decisive battle in the south-west Pacific -- 4 South Pacific turning point: Guadalcanal -- Part 2 Allied perspectives -- 5 Victory at all costs: Douglas MacArthur's Papuan campaign of 1942-43 -- 6 Command failures on the Kokoda Trail -- 7 Air war over Papua: The RAAF experience -- 8 The Battle of Milne Bay -- 9 Grinding out a victory: Australian and American commanders during the beachhead battles -- Part 3 Japanese perspectives -- 10 Making Japanese soldiers -- 11 Japanese commanders in Kokoda -- 12 Against overwhelming odds? Opposing strengths on the Kokoda Trail -- Part 4 On the trail -- 13 On the trail of an extraordinary man: The making of the architect of Kokoda -- 14 Trekking Kokoda -- Part 5 Legacies -- 15 Papua's overlooked legacy: The AMF as a learning institution -- 16 Kokoda: An epic in Australian history? -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index

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