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Conflict in Kiribati : a history of the Second World War / Peter McQuarrie.
- Title
- Conflict in Kiribati : a history of the Second World War / Peter McQuarrie.
- Author
- McQuarrie, Peter.
- Publication
- Christchurch, N.Z. : Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, 2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies.
- Description
- xxiv, 237 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Documents the political, social and military context of the Second World War as it affected Kiribati. Uses oral and written accounts from people directly involved and official records.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Military history
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-228) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part one: The dawning. (1. The arrival of the German-Marshallese ; 2. Airfield surveys in the Phoenix and Line Islands ; 3. Fanning island garrison ; 4. Coast-watching ; 5. German raiders) -- Part two: The rising Sun. (6. After Pearl Harbor: Banaba and Tarawa ; 7. Butaritari captured ; 8. Launch escape ; 9. Carlson's raid and the bombing of Keuea ; 10. Occupation of Banaba and Abemama ; 11. Occupation of Tarawa and fortification of Betio) -- Part three: The setting Sun. (12. Bombiong ; 13. Operation Galvanic ; 14. US occupation ; 15. Surrender in Banaba) -- Conclusion.
- Appendices. (AL: Contributors ; B: Coast-watchers in Kiribati ; C: Chinese in Kiribati in the Second World War ; D: Victims of the bombing of Keuea, 18 August 1942 ; E: Memorials ; F: Japanese dead on Abemama ; G: Honours and awards ; H: Chronology of conflict and occupation, 1939-1948 ; I: Abbreviations)
- ISBN
- 1877175218
- LCCN
- ^^2001369931
- OCLC
- 47935771
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library