The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II

“No other writer has turned out a book on the fighting in New Guinea that can match Mr. Johnston’s. Superior literary quality projects this work far in advance of those earlier and more hasty accounts. Mr. Johnston is a young Australian war correspondent who lived through most of the action he describes. The reader will know that from the first page and is apt to find himself tensely hunched up as he is carried into the jungles by this writer’s extraordinary reporting and artistry. As Mr. Johnston himself admits, the title sounds bombastic and the sensitive book purchaser might well shy from it. This would be a mistake, since the title is thoroughly honest.”—New York Times
GEORGE H. JOHNSTON (1912–1970) was a distinguished Australian war correspondent and author of a number of books, including My Brother Jack and Clean Straw for Nothing, both winners of Australia’s Miles Franklin Award. He was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1969.

World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — New Guinea. | World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Pacific Ocean. | World War, 1939-1945 — Japan. | World War, 1939-1945 — Australia. | World War, 1939-1945 — Aerial operations, American.
xx, 240 p.
Originally published 1943. #060722