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Defending whose country? : indigenous soldiers in the Pacific war / Noah Riseman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riseman, Noah J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Cryptography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Indian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Aboriginal Australian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Australian.
- Yolngu (Australian people).
- Military art and science.
- Australia--Armed Forces--Aboriginal Australians.
- Australia.
- Armed Forces.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- United States--Armed Forces--Indians.
- United States.
- Indians.
- Navajo code talkers.
- Yolngu (Australian people)--Warfare.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Australian.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 An Exception in the Equation? Donald Thomson and the NTSRU 35
- 2 Allies at War: De Facto Yolngu Soldiers 67
- 3 Black Skins, Black Work: Papuan and New Guinean Labor 99
- 4 Guerillas for the White Men: Formal Papuan and New Guinean Fighters 135
- 5 The Navajo Code Talkers: Warriors for the Settler Nation 169
- 6 When the War Was Over: Forgetting and (Re)membering the Code Talkers 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803237933
- 0803237936
- OCLC:
- 785862602
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