Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and Their Adversaries in World War II

by Mark D. Johnston

Book Overview

Fighting The Enemy, first published in 2000, is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during World War II, this powerful and resonant book contains many moving descriptions of high emotion and drama. Soldiers' interactions with their enemies are central to war and their attitudes to their adversaries are crucial to the way wars are fought. Yet few books look in detail...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521119952
• ISBN13: 9780521119955
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"