For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know the names of the men who fought on the track, or even the details of what happened.

More Australians died in the months of fighting in Papua than in any other campaign of World War II.

Best-selling author Australian Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, and moving, style. It is a superb blend of authority and gripping storytelling history at its best.

Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped Australians engaged a highly experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track - and defeated them.

Again and again, the outnumbered troops risked everything to stop the Japanese from advancing along the track towards mainland Australia.

Conditions on the track were hellish - rain was constant, the terrain close to inhospitable, food and ammunition supplies were practically non-existent and the men constantly battled malaria and dysentery, as well as the Japanese.

Fitzsimons is well-known as a journalist, TV personality and writer. Among his bestsellers are the biographies of Nick Farr-Jones and John Eales, together with his work on New Zealand-born WWII French Resistance heroine Nancy Wake.

He lives in Sydney and embarked on his own Kokoda Trail trek in 2003.

Kokoda by Peter FitzSimons was published in 2005 by Hodder Headline Australia.

It is a 490-page 15.5x23.5cm heavy, quality soft cover in good used condition (bottom right first few pages curled) with maps and many interesting photographs.

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