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Peter Charlton

New Guinea 1942–44 by Timothy Hall & The Thirtyniners by Peter Charlton

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April 1982, no. 39

New Guinea 1942–44 is frankly disappointing, not only to me but to those veterans of the campaign who have told me that they have read it. I missed New Guinea, but even so I was shocked by Hall’s account of the cannibalism of the Japanese, and retaliatory brutality by Australians. The pity is that Hall had all the potential for a great history, but fluffed it.

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