Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II
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Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II

Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II

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Mark Johnston (Author)  

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Fighting The Enemy, first published in 2000, is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during World War II, this powerful and resonant book contains many moving descriptions of high emotion and drama. Soldiers' interactions with their enemies are central to war and their attitudes to their adversaries are crucial to the way wars are fought. Yet few books look in detail at how enemies interpret each other. This book is an unprecedented and thorough examination of the way Australian combat soldiers interacted with troops from the four powers engaged in World War II: Germany, Italy, Vichy France and Japan. Each opponent has themes peculiar to it: the Italians were much ridiculed; the Germans were the most respected of enemies; the Vichy French were regarded with ambivalence; while the Japanese were the subject of much hostility, intensified by the real threat of occupation. Worked examples or Exercises
  • Contributor: Mark Johnston
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780521119955
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x14mm
  • Packaged Weight: 360
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2009-09-24
  • Binding: Paperback / softback

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