TY - BOOK AU - DAY David TI - Reluctant nation: Australia and the Allied defeat of Japan 1942-45 SN - 0195532422 (hbk.) U1 - 940.5394 DAY PY - 1992/// CY - Melbourne PB - Oxford University Press, KW - SECOND WORLD WAR KW - AUSTRALIA KW - PACIFIC WAR KW - EUROPEAN EMPIRES KW - POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY KW - ALLIED FORCES KW - JAPANESE DEFEAT N2 - This book deals with a vital period in the history of the modern world as the Second World War spread into the Pacific, engulfing the European empires and dragging the United States into the war. The present political geography of the Pacific was established during these years as the Allies fought Japan ER -