Instructions For American Servicemen In Australia 1942

'Unlike cricket, which is a polite game, Australian Rules Football creates a desire on the part of the crowd to tear someone apart, usually the referee.'

'The Australian has few equals in the world at swearing ... the commonest swear words are bastard (pronounced "barstud"), "bugger," and "bloody," and the Australians have a genius for using the latter nearly every other word.'

'Australians eat and drink too.'

Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to recapture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences. This reproduction of the original 1942 handbook captures the often hilarious and peculiar way Australia and its people were seen by Americans during WWII.