Title War by stealth : Australians and the Allied Intelligence Bureau, 1942-1945 / Alan Powell

Published Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1996

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Description xix, 424 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm Contents Beginnings -- Operations and machinations, 1942 -- Co-ordination and cartwheel, 1943 -- Tribulations: Singapore and Timor, 1943-1945 -- Indonesia and the South China Sea, 1943-1945 -- Training, transport and tensions, 1943-1945 -- North eastern area operations, 1944-1945 -- Borneo, 1943-1945 -- The human element Summary The intriguing and daring story of the Australian coast-watchers in New Britain and the Solomon Islands during World War II is fairly well known, but they were part of a wider organisation. The Allied Intelligence Bureau was General MacArthur's intelligence, special operations and field propaganda unit in the Pacific War, 1942-45. The AIB was unique in its multinational composition. Under American leadership, it included British, Dutch, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian members, although many of the leaders and most of the field operatives were Australian. Its area of operations stretched from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands and from Indonesia, including Borneo, to the Asian mainland. Using much newly released, formerly secret archival material from Britain, the USA and Australia, this new full-scale study of the AIB examines for the first time relations between operatives and native peoples - a relationship critical for the success or failure of missions that were often appallingly dangerous. It also lays bare the power struggles within the organisation itself - conflicts over national, military and personal interests that were constant and intense - heightened by the conduct of war at a time that was, without doubt, the most desperate in Australian history Analysis Allied Forces South West Pacific Area Allied Intelligence Bureau World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area World War, 1939-1945 Military intelligence Australia World War, 1939-1945 Military intelligence Pacific Area World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Australia World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Pacific Area Allied Intelligence Bureau History, 1901-1945 Military espionage Military intelligence Pacific Rim World War 2 Notes CIP confirmed Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 395-403 Subject Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area. Allied Intelligence Bureau. Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area. Allied Intelligence Bureau. Z Special Unit Express (Lugger) Z Force World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Australia. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean. World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Australia. World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Pacific Ocean. World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Pacific Area. World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Pacific Ocean. LC no. 96127830 ISBN 0522846912

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