@article{1402033,
      recid = {1402033},
      author = {Threlfall, Adrian,},
      title = {Jungle warriors : from Tobruk to Kokoda and beyond, how  the Australian Army became the world's most deadly jungle  fighting force /},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 309 pages) :},
      abstract = {Jungle Warriors examines the extraordinary transformation  that the Australian Army underwent over the course of the  Second World War. During this period the Australian Army  transformed itself from a military force totally unprepared  for conflict of any kind in 1939, into one of the most  professional, experienced and highly skilled jungle warfare  forces in the world by 1945. Beginning in the interwar  years, when the Australian Army was rundown, ill-equipped  and dispirited, this book traces the sweeping changes that  occurred throughout the course of the war ... This book  follows the story from Puckapunyal and Ingleburn to Tobruk  and Greece, back to Queensland and on to Milne Bay, Kokoda,  the Beachheads and final victory in Borneo, Bougainville  and New Guinea. The scale of the transition and level of  accomplishment by the men of the 2nd AIF will be clear by  the end. Instead of a series of disjointed 'snapshots' of  Australia's war in the Pacific, a coherent and  comprehensive narrative will follow the men of the 2nd AIF  from the outbreak of the war in 1939 to the end of  hostilities in 1945. How these men became exceptional  jungle warriors will be fully explained and fully  understood as never before.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1402033},
}