9780140149265

Book Description: Penguin, Australia, 1991. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Fine. Reprint. 8vo. xxiv,424pp, index, ills. Fine softcover. First pub 1946. Foreword by Weary Dunlop. Bookseller Inventory # 31487

Book Description: Penguin Books Australian War Classics, 1991. Soft cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. reprint paperback GD/--. There is a blacked-out name on the fep and a business name and phone number upside down on the title page, no other marks, not ex-library, clean cream pages, tight binding and clean covers with slightest dogears. A disparate group but courageous, independent and self-reliant. the coast watchers were vital in the Allied defence of northern Australia and New Guinea during WW2. Ignore abe's shipping estimate as I will charge shipping at cost - Australia Post rates. Bookseller Inventory # FEL001

Book Description: Penguin Group Australia, Scoresby, VIC, Australia, 1991. Soft Cover. Book Condition: As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New book, 424 pages. After Pearl Habour was bombed in 1941 the war in the Pacific gained momentum, Japanese troops began to move relentlessly south, towards Australia. Determined to provide an information network along the vulnerable coastlines of northern Australia and the islands to the north, the Australian Navy developed the Coast Watching Organisation. Many of the Coast Watchers worked voluntarily behind enemy lines, isolated and ill-equipped. Yet their radio reports gave the Allies a decisive advantage in some of the most crucual battles of the war, including the famed battle of Guadalcanal. Bookseller Inventory # 003469