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Karl James

Karl James is a Senior Historian in the Military History Section of the Australian War Memorial, specialising in Australia’s involvement in the Second World War. He is also a Departmental Visitor with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, and the author of The hard slog: Australians in the Bougainville campaign, 1944–45.

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Double Diamonds
August 2016
During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns against the Japanese.