Kokoda

The Ten Epic War Treks cover the period between the fall of Rabaul on the 23rd of January 1942, the Japanese invasion at Basabua on the 21st of July 1942, and the end of hostilities in Papua on the 4th of April 1943. No comprehensive account exists about what happened on the Kokoda track during the seven months prior to the battle of Isurava, the major early battle on the Kokoda track.

This book collates extracts of published books, diaries and reminiscences with further research on four others whom the author knew intimately. Those who are drawn to walk the track today, because of its wartime association with the defence of Australia, will gain some idea of who those wartime trekkers were and the human cost of victory in the Papuan jungle.