Masked Eden: A History of the Australians in New Guinea

The wonderful pioneering spirit of Australians is seen -- often in co-operation with the New Guineans -- struggling with the incompetence and ignorance of a small elite in Canberra and Rabaul.

The Fall of Rabaul to the Japanese in 1942 -- when over 1000 Australian civilians and soldiers were lost; the greatest purely Australian tragedy in history -- is, for the first time, fully examined using original material gathered from the nation's archives and the author's personal collection.