New Guinea: the tide is stemmed (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. Campaign book no. 13)

Festering swamp and sodden jungle, snakes, crocodiles, myriads of scorpions, centipedes, ants, leeches, typhus bearing mites, malaria; this stone age land of tropical diseases and appalling climate was the setting for a campaign that would cost the Japanese 100,000 lives. And it was the Japanese who chose to campaign there. (From the book cover).