Defending whose country?
Subtitle: indigenous soldiers in the Pacific war
By: Noah Riseman
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780803237933
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Cryptography; Australian Personal narratives; Aboriginal Australian Participation; Indians; Navajo code talkers; Indian Participation; Yolngu (Australian people); Armed Forces; Aboriginal Australians; Warfare
Description: "This book analyzes an assortment of accounts of Yolngu, Papua New Guinean, and Navajo participation in the Second World War. It frames their roles in the contexts of settler-indigenous relations and the common pasts of the then--and still--divided nations. The primary case studies are Yolngu units and 'de facto' auxiliaries in Arnhem Land, Australia; laborers, police, coastwatchers, and the Pacific Island Regiment in Papua and New Guinea; and Navajo code talkers in the U.S. Marine Corps"--Page 3.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.