Kokoda, 1942: Australian counter-attack (Readings)
Module name: Campaign history (All groups perspective)
This page was contributed by Mr John Moremon (Australian War Memorial)

Margaret Barter, Far above battle: the experience and memory of Australian soldiers in war 1939-1945 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994).

Ken Clift, The saga of a Sig: the wartime memories of six years service in the Second AIF (Randwick: KCD Publications, 1972).

Ken Clift, War dance: a story of the 2/3 Aust. Inf. Battalion AIF, P.M. Fowler & 2/3rd Battalion Association, Kingsgrove (NSW), 1980

William Crooks, The footsoldiers: the story of the 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF in the war of 1939-45 (Sydney: Printcraft Press for the 2/33rd Australian Infantry Battalion, A.I.F. Association, 1971).

Allan W. Draydon, Men of courage: a history of 2/25 Australian Infantry Battalion 1940-1945 (Cheltenham: 2/25 Australian Infantry Battalion Association, 2000).

Douglas Gillison, Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 3 (Air): vol. I, Royal Australian Air Force 1939-42 (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1962).

E.C. Givney, The First at war: the story of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-45, the City of Sydney Regiment (Earlwood: Association of First Infantry Battalions, 1987).

D.M. Horner, Crisis of command: Australian generalship and the Japanese threat, 1941-1943 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1978).

D.M. Horner, General Vasey’s war (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992).

Colin Kennedy, Port Moresby to Gona Beach: 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion 1942, (Canberra: Colin Kennedy, 1992).

John Laffin, Forever forward: the story of the 2/31st Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF, 1940-45 (Newport: 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion Association (New South Wales Branch), 1994).

Jock Marshall, Nulli secundus log (Sydney: 2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 1946).

Lex McAulay, Blood and iron: the battle for Kokoda 1942 (Sydney: Hutchinson, 1991).

Douglas McCarthy, Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 1 (Army): vol. V, South-West Pacific Area—First Year: Kokoda to Wau (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1959).

R.R. McNicoll, The Royal Australian Engineers, 1919 to 1945: teeth and tail (Canberra: Corps Committee of the Royal Australian Engineers, 1982).

Gordon Osborn (ed.), The Pioneers: unit history of the 2nd/1st Australian Pioneer Battalion Second AIF, (Beverly Hills (NSW): M.D. Herron, 1988).

Frank Sublet, Kokoda to the sea: a history of the 1942 campaign in Papua (McCrae: Slouch Hat Publications, 2000).

A.J. Sweeting, The 2/4th Field Ambulance AIF during the Owen Stanleys campaign 1942: memories of Sgt. A.J. (Bill) Sweeting MBE (Canberra: A.J. Sweeting, date unknown).

George Tarlington, Shifting sands & savage jungle: the memories of a frontline infantryman (Loftus: Australian Military History Publications, 1994).

Allan S. Walker, Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 5 (Medical): vol. III, The Island Campaigns (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1962).

Stan Wick, Purple over green: the history of the 2/2 Australian Infantry Battalion, 1939-1945 (Sydney: 2/2 Australian Infantry Battalion Association, 1997).

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