The Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU), an Australian Army unit, superseded the civilian government of Papua New Guinea early in 1942 and administered the area until mid-1946. This book traces all major aspects of ANGAU's war. It provides the only full-length study of Papua New Guinean interaction with Australian and American armed forces in the Second World War, filling a considerable gap in the study of Australia's colonial administration and in New Guinea's political and military history.

The Third Force: ANGAU's New Guinea War, 1942-46 (The ^AAustralian Army History Series)

History

Powell, Alan

Australia & Oceania

Oxford University Press

This is a revealing account of the perilous and adventurous course of the Northern Territory: a comprehensive account of its history which debunks the myths and makes human both the high and the low points. Until recently the region was largely neglected by Australian historians. Alan Powell was one of the first to help redress that balance - to establish that the Territory, although idiosyncratic in much of its history, is nevertheless an essential part of Australian consciousness.

Far country: A short history of the Northern Territory

[Distributor] U.S.A. and Canada, International Scholarly Book Services

Darwin was first bombed by the Japanese in February 1942 - for the first time in the history of European Australia, some part of its people faced the full impact of modern war: destruction, dispossession and the blind sweep of death.

The shadow's edge: Australia's northern war

International Specialized Books Services

Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory

Melbourne Univ Pr

This is a full and revealing account of the perilous and adventurous course of the Northern Territory; a comprehensive account of its history which debunks the myths and makes human both the high and low points. During the second half of this century writers, journalists and the tourist trade have promoted the image of the Territory as Australia's last frontier. To many Australians who live south of the Tropic of Capricorn the far north is still outside the real Australia. Until recently it was an area largely neglected by Australian historians who concentrated their work on the south-east corner of the continent. Alan Powell's work was one of the first to help redress that balance. The Northern Territory is a wondrous place of bizarre natural history and eccentric personalities; of great unrest and great triumph. Far Country presents the place and its story with skill and simplicity.

Melbourne University Press

<p>The intriguing and daring story of the Australian coast-watchers in New Britain and the Solomon Islands during World War II is fairly well known, but they were part of a wider organisation. The Allied Intelligence Bureau was General MacArthur's intelligence, special operations and field propaganda unit in the Pacific War, 1942-45.<br>The AIB was unique in its multinational composition. Under American leadership, it included British, Dutch, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian members, although many of the leaders and most of the field operatives were Australian. Its area of operations stretched from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands and from Indonesia, including Borneo, to the Asian mainland.<br>Using much newly released, formerly secret archival material from Britain, the USA and Australia, this new full-scale study of the AIB examines for the first time relations between operatives and native peoples - a relationship critical for the success or failure of missions that were often appallingly dangerous. It also lays bare the power struggles within the organisation itself - conflicts over national, military and personal interests that were constant and intense - heightened by the conduct of war at a time that was, without doubt, the most desperate in Australian history.</p>

War by Stealth: Australians and the Allied Intelligence Bureau 1942-1945

MUP: Melbourne University Press

World's End: British Military Outputs in the Ring Fence Around Australia

Australian Scholarly Publishing

Beginner Bridge - Building on the Basics: Finishing the First Year of Bridge (Beginner Bridge: The First Year)

Humor & Entertainment

Powell, Meagan

Puzzles & Games

Independently published

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