Książka Awkward Truth Peter Grose

Awkward Truth

The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942

Autor: Peter Grose
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Allen & Unwin
Dostępność: 50 % szansa
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The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there wa...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2011
strony
276
EAN
9781742376073
Enbook ID
04841893
Wydawca
Waga
275
Wymiary
128 x 198 x 23

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The bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942 is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day - courage, mateship, determination and improvisation - the dark side of the story lingers: looting, desertion and a calamitous failure of Australian leadership. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl Harbor only ten weeks earlier. There was a difference: they dropped more bombs on Darwin, killed more civilians in Darwin, and sank more ships in Darwin than in Pearl Harbor. It remains the single deadliest event in Australian history. Yet the story has remained in the shadows. Absorbing, spirited and fast-paced, An Awkward Truth is a compelling and revealing story of the day war first came to Australia, and of the under-armed and unprepared soldiers and civilians who faced their toughest test on home soil.

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