The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific, 1944-45 (1983) By Peter Charlton
 
The last year of the Pacific war cost more than a thousand Australian lives in campaigns that are today almost impossible to justify either militarily or politically. The soldiers doing the fighting and the dying thought they were participating in a 'politicians' war'. They were not. They were fighting a general's war. A Wasteful exercise, the blame for which, the Author lays at the feet of Sir Thomas Blamey.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
188 pages
In Good condition