About the Book: Tropical Warfare in the Asia-Pacific Region, 1941-45
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the land war
during the Second World War in South-East Asia and the South and South-West
Pacific. The extensive existing literature focuses on particular armies
Japanese, British, American, Australian or Indian and/or on particular theatres
the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaya or Burma. This book, on the contrary,
argues that warfare in all the theatres was very similar, especially the
difficulties of the undeveloped terrain, and that there was considerable
interchange of ideas between the allied armies which enabled the spread of best
practice among them. The