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The story of the five battles that changed Australia forever, this compelling narrative incorporates hundreds of interviews with the soldiers who fought at Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, and Sanananda in 1942 and 1943. Revealed are the very real and engaging experiences of Generals MacArthur and Blamey and other senior Australian commanders who sacrificed many of their senior field officers as scapegoats to protect their own positions, assisted in the making of false legends, and lied about the outcome of the men who fought the battles.
- Sales Rank: #1097355 in Books
- Published on: 2005-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.59" w x 6.00" l, 2.31 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 724 pages
Review
“A valuable read for anyone interested in men at war and particularly for students of the Pacific War.” —The NYMAS Review
About the Author
Peter Brune is the author of The Spell Broken, Those Ragged Bloody Heroes, and We Band of Brothers, and is the coauthor of 200 Shots: Damien Parer and George Silk and The Australians at War in New Guinea.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
I Was There
By Gordon Innis
My review of a replacement copy of A BASTARD OF A PLACE, purchased from Amazon. Paul Raymond wrote "Retreat From Kokoda" and made an acceptable account of the actions, but Peter Brune has published a very detailed and accurate research of the events and personalities involved in the Japanese attack on Papua in 1942, which resulted in the first ever land defeats of the Japanese army (4 in total), by Australian forces. As an Australian (Now Canadian), I was in Papua at the time. General MacArthur tried to conduct a war in mountainous country from a very safe location in Brisbane, Queensland, and having no personal first hand knowledge of the terrible conditions, made many irresponsible demands on the field forces. These battles were concluded about three weeks before the defeat of the Japs by U.S. Marines on Guardalcanal . Thank you, Peter Brune for this great production.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
First-rate account of the Papuan campaign, 1943-43. Nasty ...
By Edward B. Williams
First-rate account of the Papuan campaign, 1943-43. Nasty, largely unheralded account of the campaign that foiled the Japanese attempt to occupy northern Australia and interdict U.S. supply lines from the U.S. and Hawaii.
28 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
A Definitive Account
By James Wackett
"Few Australians have heard of Gona, Buna and Sanananda - or for that matter Milne Bay. In commemorating the Papuan campaign we have, as a nation, got lost on the Kokoda trail" - Peter Brune.
I have never read a book that focuses completely on the Australian campaign in Papua (or part thereof) before, but only works that include the campaign as part of a more broad assessment of the whole South West Pacific Theatre of Operations. That said, I think it would be hard to find a better book on the Papuan campaign than Peter Brune's `A Bastard of a Place'.
The premise of Brune's book is that... "Kokoda's glory constitutes but one-fifth of the Australian legend of Papua during 1942. It is an integral part of that legend, but not its whole.
"...also, it is the sad saga of a nation still ignorant of this great Australian legend, still largely unaware of the feats of some of its most deserving military commanders and the soldiers they served. In some measure, regrettably, it is the story of others who have been accorded undue praise."
First and foremost in Brune's assessment of those who have received undue praise are Generals Douglas Macarthur and Thomas Blamey. Brune is scathing in his criticism of Macarthur's role as Supreme Allied commander in the South-West Pacific.
In Brune's assessment, Macarthur firstly was ignorant of the potential impact of a Japanese incursion into Papua and eventually was focused purely on achieving a quick land victory before his rival Admiral Nimitz could achieve a land victory on Guadalcanal in the neighbouring South Pacific Theatre of Operations, thus winning for himself the confidence of General George Marshall and the US Joint Chiefs and a greater share of US resources in the Pacific.
Macarthur's failure to understand the terrain and constraints in which the 2nd AIF's 7th Division and the AMF Militia Brigades in Papua faced, and the pressure he placed on Australian commanders in the field to achieve a quick victory, led to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Australian soldiers in `Flanders-style' infantry assaults on heavily fortified and defended Japanese positions during the `Battle of the Beachhead' (Gona, Buna and Sanananda).
Blamey and a number of senior Australian commanders are willing accomplices in this process. While Brune acknowledges Blamey's successes as a leader and commander during World War One and in the Middle East in 1940-42, (as well as his many personal deficiencies), Papua is definitely the low point of Blamey's career and a period for which Brune finds little excuse - his notorious Koitaki address adding insult to the injury of the disloyalty he showed to senior Australian commanders in New Guinea including MAJ GEN Arthur `Tubby' Allen, MAJ GEN Cyril Clowes and BRIG Arnold Potts.
Potts is singled out as the unsung hero of the fighting withdrawal from Kokoda, beloved by the troops who served under him, `Pottsy' was sacrificed by Blamey on Macarthur's alter. MAG GEN Cyril Clowes, the victor of Milne Bay, is also singled out as a great unsung hero of the Papuan campaign, and yet another victim of Blamey's betrayal of his commanders.
But while the story of the commanders, both the heroes and the villains, is an important part of this book, it is by no means the focus.
Brune's work is meticulously researched - and much of the material he draws on is from the countless interviews and correspondence he has personally had with hundreds of veterans of the Papuan campaign over the last 15 years from Privates to senior officers. Along with the diaries and letters of the time, they paint a vivid and terrifying picture of what happened between July 1942 and January 1943.
It is these voices, of the men who fought the Japanese as well as the jungle, the swamps, the mountains, the disease and the climate who are the heart of this book and help to make it a definitive account, and Brune the definitive authority, on the Papuan Campaign.
The work, influence and legacy of wartime journalists and photographers like Chester Wilmot, Osmar White, Damien Parer and George Silk are also examined at some length in the book, (as well as the challenges they faced getting their work to the outside world), and some of the book's most interesting passages include the stories behind some Silk's incredible photos of the fighting at Buna, (unfortunately only a few of which are reproduced in the book).
One down side to the book are the maps. They aren't nearly detailed enough and given the detail which Brune goes into about the different phases of each battle, the maps are inadequate and horrendously over-simplified. As so much of the Papuan campaign hinged on the impact of the terrain contested, it seems a shame not to do that terrain more justice.
I also feel that while Brune justifiably seeks to address the glaring deficiencies in some of the official US accounts of the campaign, he goes a little too far with some of the swipes he makes at the Americans.
I would also have liked to see more about the Japanese side of the story. His excellent chapters on the Battle for Milne Bay included some diary extracts from some of the Japanese `marines' with the Naval Landing units which provide a fascinating insight into their perceptions of the Australians they were fighting. How we are viewed by an enemy will always shed some interesting light on how we view ourselves. It would also have been great to learn a little bit more about Major General Tomitaro Horii, who commanded the Japanese Forces during the Kokoda fighting and later died during the Japanese retreat - his background, personality, strategic grasp etc...
As far as I'm concerned, Brune has achieved his objective with `A Bastard of a Place'. Kokoda justifiably holds a high place in the Australian psyche, but it is not fully appreciated until it is understood within the broader Papuan campaign - and the battles at Gona, Buna, Sanananda, and particularly Milne Bay are just as much a part of the legend.
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