An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 - Tapa blanda

Grose, Peter

 
9781742376073: An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
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ISBN 10: 174237607X ISBN 13: 9781742376073
Editorial: Allen & Unwin, 2011

Sinopsis

'Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account . deserves to be widely read.'-Sun-Herald 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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Peter Grose is a former publisher at Secker + Warburg, founder of Curtis Brown Australia, and was until recently the chairman of ACP (UK).He is the author of A Very Rude Awakening published by Allen + Unwin in 2007.

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Editorial
Allen & Unwin
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
174237607X
ISBN 13 
9781742376073
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
272
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