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IMAGES OF WAR
THE WAR IN THE
SOUTH PACIFIC
RARE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM WARTIME
ARCHIVES
Jon Diamond
First published in Great Britain in 2017 by
PEN & SWORD MILITARY
An imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
47 Church Street
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 2AS
Copyright © Jon Diamond, 2017
ISBN 978-1-47387-061-1
eISBN 978-1-47387-063-5
Mobi ISBN 978-1-47387-062-8
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1988.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter One
Overview of the South Pacific Campaign
Chapter Two
Stepping-Stones after Guadalcanal
Chapter Three
New Georgia Invasion and Assault on Munda (Operation
Toenails)
Chapter Four
Bougainville Invasion at Empress Augusta Bay
(Operation
Cherry Blossom)
and Beachhead Expansion
Chapter Five
Japanese Counterattack and Perimeter Defence, March
1944
Chapter Six
Australian Action on Bougainville, November 1944–
August 1945
Epilogue
References
About the Author
J
on Diamond is an American practising physician in Pennsylvania. He
graduated from Cornell University and was on the faculties of Harvard
Medical School and the Pennsylvania State University College of
Medicine, achieving the academic rank of Professor at the latter. A
lifelong student of military history, Jon has contributed numerous articles
to Sovereign Media’s
WWII History, WWII Quarterly, Military History,
and
Civil War Quarterly.
He was a civilian attendee at the National
Security Seminar at the United States Army War College in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania. He has authored four Osprey Publishing books and three
Stackpole Military Photo Series volumes. His Pen & Sword
Images of
War
Series works include:
Stilwell and the Chindits: The Allied
Campaign in Northern Burma 1943–1944
and
The Fall of Malaya and
Singapore.
Currently, he is working on his latest
Images of War
Series
book,
The Invasion of Sicily 1943.
As a physician, Jon takes care of
many Second World War veterans, who are becoming a dwindling cadre
due to the inexorable march of time. We listen to their accounts and read
about their exploits lest we forget their sacrifice to preserve freedom.

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