Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer lives and loves of Allied servicemen in the South Seas. It traces the complexities of homoerotic inclination and self-expression among local and foreign servicemen in Australia, and among soldiers stationed in New Guinea and New Caledonia. Based on meticulous archival research Smaal shows how men in and out of uniform forged new beginnings and possibilities, how they created circuits of thinking and practice, and how they employed strategies of resistance and negotiation to live happy and fulfilling lives despite the best efforts of civil and military authorities to control homosexual culture.