Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/News/June 2017/Book reviews

Hawkeye7 has written a good and balanced review on Kokoda: Beyond the Legend although I think he meant to say that Isurava was a defeat but the Owen Stanley campaign was a victory. Karl James assembled a pantheon of distinguished historians including a former colleague Peter Williams whose two books on Kokoda as well of his work on the DVA Kokoda website are outstanding. Peter Wiliams' chapter on relative Australian and Japanese strengths during the Kokoda campaign demolishes the myth that the Australians were outnumbered. But elsewhere in his books he makes a strong case defending the sacking of Potts and Allen. I was amused FitzSimons has called military historians ‘brave academics waving their tattered flag of truth’. I think both have important but different roles and I do not want military historians sacrificing the truth in order to get the readership numbers of authors like FitzSimons. Anthony Staunton (talk) 14:12, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

I had the good fortune to attend the 'Kokoda: Beyond the Legend' conference in 2012, and wrote an article about it for the Bugle which is available here. Nick-D (talk) 08:17, 9 June 2017 (UTC)