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Fighting the Enemy

Fighting the Enemy

Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II

by Mark Johnston
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/04/2000
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Fighting the Enemy 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.
ISBN:
9780521782227
9780521782227
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
16-04-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
238
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x17mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Mark Johnston

Dr Mark Johnston is Head of the History Department at Scotch College, Melbourne, Victoria. Mark Johnston is one of this country's leading experts on the Australian Army in World War II.

He was described in the Australian War Memorial's Wartime magazine as `the leading historian on the experience of Australian soldiers during the war'. This book, his eleventh, goes to the heart of that wartime experience.

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