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Book Review

Oceania and the Pacific Islands

Phillip Bradley. On Shaggy Ridge: The Australian Seventh Division in the Ramu Valley Campaign: From Kaiapit to the Finisterres. (The Australian Army History Series.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 284. $45.00.

The Pacific War does not enjoy the level of public or scholarly awareness, much less understanding, accorded World War II in Europe. There is no agreement over when it started (Pearl Harbor marks merely the belated entry of the United States) nor of what brought the Japanese to surrender in 1945, nor is this the place to revisit complex arguments over the role of the atomic bomb in that process. Between those two points, there exists what one Australian historian, speaking of the New Guinea campaign, described as a "green hole."

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