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It's hard to imagine this story to be part of the past, but in 1942, an 11-year-old Australian young man, Richard Manson, and his parents either aspect of him were taken by japan for suspected spying in Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Acclaimed Fourth Estate writer and award-winning knowledge journalist Ian Townsend has uncovered a fascinating report of World War Two, little known to most Australians. Centring on the hotspot (in every sense) that was Rabaul in World War Two, his consideration is an intriguing narrative which weaves along Australian history, armed forces conflict and knowledge - with volcanology being the peculiar knowledge which drew the Us citizens, Japanese and Australians along in conflict in the Pacific in the 1940s - and the storyline of one ordinary but doomed Australian family. Like The Hare with Amber Eye, this is a fascinating work of narrative nonfiction, a story of spies, volcanoes, record, conflict and battle, set up against the romantic, remarkable and eventually tragic backdrop of Rabaul in World War Two.
