Defending whose country? : indigenous soldiers in the Pacific war / Noah Riseman.
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TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.Description: xii, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780803237933 (hbk.) :
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-296) and index.
This is a comparative study of the military participation of Papua New Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific War. In examining the decisions of state and military leaders to bring indigenous peoples into military service, as well as the decisions of indigenous individuals to serve in the armed forces.
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