Tarakan

Peter W. Stanley
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In 1945, 240 Australians died taking the small island of Tarakan from the Japanese. The tragedy of Tarakan was that by the time they succeeded, they needn't have begun. critically appraises the view that the Borneo campaign was unnecessary, arguing that the tragedy of Tarakan was that it was a justifiable operation doomed by the politics of coalition warfare and by bad planning.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic
Published: 04/01/1997
ISBN: 9781864482782
Pages: 288
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.67d