The Battle of Brisbane. Australians and the Yanks at War

ix, 242pp, sources, loosely inserted news clipping. Or card covers. Near new. From the rear cover, 'For two days in November 1942, Brisbane became a war zone. A year earlier the US soldiers had been warmly welcomed but as thousands more Americans flooded into the city, brawls broke out. The culmination was the Battle of Brisbane during which an American military policeman shot dead an Australian solider and wounded six other soldiers and a civilian. Many men on both sides were injured in hand-to-hand fighting, some seriously'. Size: 8vo