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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Defending Whose Country? : Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War
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'Investigates the role of the Army’s Yolngu Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit , who were recruited by Donald Thomson in 1941, with assistance from Raiwalla from western Arnhem Land and Kapiu from the Torres Strait.' (Source: AIATSIS website)

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Notes

  • This work contains:

    1. An exception in the equation? Donald Thomson and the NTSRU

    2. Allies at War : De Facto Yolngu Soldiers

    3. Black skins, Black Work : Papuan and New Guinean Labor

    4. Guerillas for the White Men

    5. The Navajo Code Talkers

    6. When the War was Over

    Conclusion: The Soldier-Warrior in Modern War.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Lincoln, Nebraska,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      University of Nebraska Press ,
      2012 .
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      Extent: xii, 304p.
      Description: illus., maps, ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography and index.
      ISBN: 9780803237933 (hbk), 0803237936 (hbk)

Works about this Work

[Review] Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War Martin Crotty , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , April vol. 39 no. 1 2015; (p. 108-109)

— Review of Defending Whose Country? : Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War Noah Riseman , 2012 single work criticism
[Review] Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War Martin Crotty , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , April vol. 39 no. 1 2015; (p. 108-109)

— Review of Defending Whose Country? : Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War Noah Riseman , 2012 single work criticism
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