The battle for Shaggy Ridge

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Label

The battle for Shaggy Ridge

Statement of responsibility

Phillip Bradley

Title variation

Battle for Shaggy Ridge

Title variation remainder

the extraordinary story of the Australian campaign against the Japanese in New Guinea's Finisterre Mountains in 1943-44

Creator

• trueBradley, Phillip, 1955-

Author

• trueBradley, Phillip, 1955-

Subject

• Personal narratives
• Ramu River Valley (Papua New Guinea) -- History
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea -- Personal narratives, Australian
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea | Finisterre Range
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea | Ramu River Valley
• Australia, Army
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Australian
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Australia
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American
• Australia, Australian Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945

Genre

• truePersonal narratives, Australian
• truePersonal narratives

Language

eng

Summary

'You climb and climb . . . This is the field of battle . . . tonight some of us will be dead . . . You'll never forget Shaggy Ridge.' - Shawn O'Leary From the killing ground of Kaiapit to the treacherous heights of the Finisterre Range, for four months in 1943-44 the Australian army fought to drive the Japanese from their mountain strongholds. The most formidable position was the fortress-like Shaggy Ridge, its steep sides rising sharply to a knife-edge crest where battle was joined on a one-man front. Based on the accounts of over a hundred Australians, Americans and Japanese who served on, around and over the ridge, The Battle for Shaggy Ridge tells the story of this extraordinary struggle for control of the Ramu Valley in New Guinea

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

940.5426

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult