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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781316995617

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Courage. Endurance. Mateship. Sacrifice. These values, engraved in stone at the Isurava war memorial, have become synonymous with the Australian experience during the Kokoda campaign of 1942. The story of Kokoda and of the fighting in Papua has been told and retold in books, films and documentaries, but these popular narratives rarely explore beyond this one campaign. Kokoda: Beyond the Legend critically assesses not only the campaigns in Papua and their context in the wider lengthy Pacific war, but also the actions of senior Australian, American and Japanese military leaders. Moving beyond the legend, this book addresses the central question of why Kokoda holds such a significant place in Australian military history. In this book, Karl James brings together eminent military scholars to reassess the principal battles from both Allied and Japanese perspectives, providing readers with a more complete understanding of one of the major turning points in the Second World War.

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Further reading

Articles and chapters

Hawkins, Jo, ‘“What better excuse for a real adventure”: History, memory and tourism on the Kokoda Trail’, Public History Review, vol. 20, 2013, pp. 123.
Horner, David, ‘Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Rowell: Dismissal of a corps commander’ in Horner, David (ed.), The Commanders: Australian Military Leadership in the Twentieth Century, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1984, pp. 225–43.
James, Karl, ‘Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Rowell’ in Stockings, Craig and Connor, John (eds), The Shadow Men: The Forgotten Legacies that Shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2017.
Nelson, Hank, ‘Gallipoli, Kokoda and the making of national identity’, Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 21, no. 53, 1997, pp. 157–69.
Nelson, Hank, ‘Kokoda: The track from history to politics’, Journal of Pacific History, vol. 38, no. 1, 2003, pp. 109–27.
Nelson, Hank, ‘Kokoda: Pushing the popular image’, Journal of Pacific History, vol. 45, no. 1, 2010, pp. 89104.
Stevens, David, ‘“Australia’s Thermopylae”? The Kokoda Trail’ in Stockings, Craig (ed.), Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, NewSouth, Sydney, 2010, pp. 161–89.
Tracey, Rowan, ‘Retreat to Imita: The final stages of the Australian withdrawal on the Kokoda Trail’, United Service, vol. 62, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 24–9.
Wise, Nathan, ‘An intimate history of digging in the Australian army during the Kokoda Campaign of 1942’, Labour History, no. 107, 2014, pp. 2134.

Books

Anderson, Nicholas, To Kokoda, Big Sky Publishing, Sydney, 2014.
Beevor, Antony, The Second World War, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2012.
Borneman, Walter R., The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy and King – The Five Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea, Little, Brown & Company, New York, 2012.
Bradley, Phillip, Hell’s Battlefield: The Australians in New Guinea in World War II, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012.
Braga, Stuart, Kokoda Commander: A Life of Major General ‘Tubby’ Allen, OUP, Melbourne, 2004.
Brune, Peter, A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua – Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, and Sanananda, 2nd edn, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004.
Bullard, Steven (trans.), Japanese Army Operations in the South Pacific Area: New Britain and Papuan campaigns, 1942–43, AWM, Canberra, 2007.
Carlsen, J., The Economic Significance of the Trekking on the Kokoda Track, PNG in 2011, Report to the Kokoda Track Authority. Curtin Sustainable Tourism Centre, Curtin University, Perth, 2012.
Collie, Craig and Marutani, Hajime, The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009.
Dean, Peter J. (ed.), Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War, CUP, Port Melbourne, 2013.
Drea, Edward J., MacArthur’s ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942–1945, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1991.
Drea, Edward J., Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2009.
Duffy, James P., War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea, 1942–1945, New American Library, New York, 2016.
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Frank, Richard B., Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, Penguin, New York, 1990.
Frei, Henry, Japan’s Southward Advance and Australia, MUP, Melbourne, 1991.
Gailey, Harry, MacArthur Strikes Back: Decision at Buna, New Guinea, Presidio, Novato, CA, 2000.
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Ham, Paul, Kokoda, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2004.
Hawthorne, Stuart, The Kokoda Trail: A History, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2003.
Horner, David, High Command, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1982.
Horner, David, General Vasey’s War, MUP, Melbourne, 1992.
Horner, David, Blamey: The Commander in Chief, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998.
Hornfischer, James D., Neptune’s Inferno: The US Navy at Guadalcanal, Bantam, New York, 2011.
Hough, Frank O., Ludwig, Verle E. and Shaw, Henry I., Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, Historical Branch, G-3 Division Headquarters, US Marine Corps, Washington DC, 1958.
James, Bill, Field Guide to the Kokoda Track, rev. edn, Kokoda Press, Sydney, 2008.
James, D. Clayton, The Years of MacArthur, vol. II, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1975.
Johnston, Mark, Whispering Death, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2011.
Kienzle, Robyn, The Architect of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle – The Man Who Made the Kokoda Trail, Hachette, Sydney, 2011.
Kokoda Initiative, Voices from the War: Papuan New Guinean Stories of the Kokoda Campaign, World War Two, Kokoda Initiative, Canberra, 2015.
Lundstrom, John B., The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy December 1941 – June 1942, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1976.
Lundstrom, John B., Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2006.
MacArthur, Douglas, Reminiscences, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1964.
Mawdsley, Evan, Thunder in the East: The Nazi–Soviet War 1941–1945, Hodder Arnold, London, 2005.
McCarthy, Dudley, South West Pacific Area – First Year: Kokoda to Wau, AWM, Canberra, 1959.
Milner, Samuel, Victory in Papua, Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington DC, 1957.
Mitter, Rana, China’s War with Japan, 1937–1945, Allen Lane, 2013.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942 – February 1943, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1949.
Paine, Sarah, The Wars of Asia 1911–1949, CUP, Cambridge, 2012.
Parshall, Jonathan and Tully, Anthony, Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, Potomac Books, Dulles, VA, 2005.
Paull, Raymond, Retreat from Kokoda, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1958.
Peattie, Mark, Drea, Edward J. and van de Ven, Hans (eds), The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2011.
Perry, Mark, The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur, Basic Books, New York, 2014.
Powell, Alan, The Third Force: ANGAU’s New Guinea War 1942–46, OUP, Melbourne, 2003.
Pratten, Garth, Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, CUP, Melbourne, 2009.
Ramage, S.P., Kokoda Secret: Ian Hutchinson – Australian Hero, Eora Press, Wahroonga, NSW, 2014.
Rowell, Sydney, Full Circle, MUP, Melbourne, 1974.
Senshishitsu, Bōeichō Bōei Kenshūjo, Senshi sōsho: Minami Taiheiyō rikugun sakusen (2) Gadarukanaru–Buna sakusen (War History Series: South Pacific Area Army Operations (vol. 2), Guadalcanal–Buna Campaigns), Asagumo Shinbunsha, Tokyo, 1969.
Stahel, David, Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East, CUP, Cambridge, 2009.
Stanley, Peter, Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942, Viking, Melbourne, 2008.
Sublet, Frank, Whatever Man Dares: The Second World War Memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sublet DSO MC, Kokoda Press, Sydney, 2013.
Symonds, Craig L., The Battle of Midway, OUP, New York, 2011.
Threlfall, Adrian, Jungle Warriors, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2014.
Wigmore, Lionel, The Japanese Thrust, AWM, Canberra, 1957.
Williams, Peter, The Kokoda Campaign 1942: Myth and Reality, CUP, Melbourne, 2012.
Zobel, James, MacArthur: The Supreme Commander at War in the Pacific, Stackpole, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2015.

Unpublished theses

Fraser, Bryce, ‘The combat effectiveness of Australian and American infantry battalions in Papua in 1942–1943’, PhD thesis, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2013.
McLeod, Jan, ‘Within reach, beyond care: An examination of medical care during the Papuan (Kokoda) campaign 1942–43 through the lens of the Australian field ambulance’, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, 2015.
Moremon, John, ‘A triumph of improvisation: Australian army operational logistics and the campaign in Papua, July 1942 to January 1943’, PhD thesis, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW, Canberra, 2000.
Woolley, David, ‘Not yet diagnosed: Australian psychiatric casualties during the Kokoda Campaign, 1942’, Honours thesis, University of New South Wales, Canberra, 2015.

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