Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%
Skip to main content
Absolutely Revolting
Military History

Catch up to Kokoda

Kokoda by Paul Ham

by John Coates •
August 2005, no. 273

Kokoda by Paul Ham

HarperCollins, $45 hb, 602 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

In Dudley McCarthy’s volume in the Australian official history of World War II, subtitled Kokoda to Wau (1959), there is a wonderfully evocative passage that sets the fighting in Papua New Guinea in context:

 


Continue reading for only $10 per month.
Subscribe and gain full access to Australian Book Review.

Already a subscriber? .
If you need assistance, feel free to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Leave a comment
Kokoda

Kokoda by Paul Ham

HarperCollins, $45 hb, 602 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

From the New Issue

Yilkari: A desert suite
Fiction

Yilkari: Novel by symbiosis by Nicolas Rothwell and Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson

by Paul Daley
Arborescence
Fiction

Arborescence: On becoming trees by Rhett Davis

by Joseph Steinberg
On Display: The story of Artbank, Australia’s most visible collection
Art

On Display: A story worth telling by Laura Couttie

by Julie Ewington
‘Inconsolable Poem’, a new poem by Toby Fitch
Poem

‘Inconsolable Poem’

by Toby Fitch

You May Also Like

ABR Logo - default image
Letters

Letters to the Editor – April 1991

by Sneja Gunew, George Papaellinas, Stephen Muecke, Brian Castro, Morag Loh, Maria Lewitt, Serge Liberman
Vale Byron Bay
Fiction

Vale Byron Bay by Wayne Grogan & Tuvalu by Andrew O’Connor

by Owen Richardson
Gillian Dooley reviews Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay
Fiction

Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay

by Gillian Dooley
She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism
Art

She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism

by A. Frances Johnson

Leave a comment

If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment.

If you have forgotten your sign in details, or if you receive an error message when trying to submit your comment, please email your comment (and the name of the article to which it relates) to ABR Comments. We will review your comment and, subject to approval, we will post it under your name.

Please note that all comments must be approved by ABR and comply with our Terms & Conditions.

Submit comment