"Writing from his own white-hot experience, the author describes an unfamiliar kind of war as graphically and relentlessly as in 'The Twenty Thousand Thieves'. The pursuit of the Japanese armies along the mountain trails of New Guinea, the 'dim green island', the depiction of suffering and the depths of infamy, are related in terms of convincing realism. Yet for all its horror, it is a story told without hate, by a man whose spirit came triumphant through probably the most terrible kind of warfare ever made the subject of a novel." -- from inside cover.