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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 Paperback - 2011

by Peter Grose


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  • Title An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
  • Author Peter Grose
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 262
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Allen & Unwin, Sydney
  • Date 2011-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781742376073 / 174237607X
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Australian
  • Library of Congress subjects Bombing, Aerial - Northern Territory - Darwin, World War, 1939-1945 - Northern Territory -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010681586
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

About the author

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.
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Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2011. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 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. 256 pages. Light tanning to page edges.… Read More
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