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" New plans were again being made to end the ghastly nightmare which the Sanananda affair had become. The primaeval swamps, the dank and silent bush, the heavy loss of life, the fixity of purpose of the Japanese for most of whom death could be the only... "
A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua : Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona ... - Page 576
by Peter Brune - 2004 - 704 pages
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In the Footsteps of Ghosts: With the 2/9th Battalion in the African Desert ...

W. B. Spencer - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...any real sense of direction and purpose. The Official Historian, Dudley McCarthy, would later write: New plans were again being made to end the ghastly...dank and silent bush, the heavy loss of life, the obsession of purpose of the Japanese for most of whom death could be the only ending, all combined...
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Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and Their Adversaries in World War II

Mark Johnston - History - 2000 - 242 pages
...that made the Gona..Buna,Sanananda fighting so appalling was what the official historian described as 'the fixity of purpose of the Japanese for most of whom death could be the only ending'. 4* The matter,of,fact way in which they faced death is exemplified by their use at Gona of comrades'...
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200 Shots: Damien Parer and George Silk with the Australians at War in New ...

Neil McDonald, Peter Brune - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 216 pages
...Wye Point — it must have been taken around mid-December. The Official Historian, Dudley McCarthy: New plans were again being made to end the ghastly...primaeval swamps, the dank and silent bush, the heavy toss of life, the fixity of purpose of the Japanese for most of whom death could be the only ending,...
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