Defending whose country? : indigenous soldiers in the Pacific war / Noah Riseman.

Author: Riseman, Noah J.

Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Descriptionxii, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Introduction : reading colonialism and indigenous involvement in the Second World War -- An exception in the equation? Donald Thompson and the NTSRU -- Allies at war : de facto Yolngu soldiers -- Black skins, black work : Papuan and New Guinean labor -- Guerrillas for the white men : formal Papuan and New Guinean fighters -- The Navajo code talkers : warriors for the settler nation -- When the war was over : forgetting and remembering the code talkers -- Conclusion : the soldier-warrior in the modern war.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-296) and index.

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