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An Awkward Truth

An Awkward Truth

The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942

by Peter Grose
Paperback
Age range: + years old Publication Date: 01/02/2011

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'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.
ISBN:
9781742376073
9781742376073
Category:
Second World War
Age range:
+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-02-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
198x128x23mm
Weight:
0.28kg
Peter Grose

Peter Grose began his working life as a journalist for the Sydney Daily Mirror before becoming the first London correspondent of The Australian. He switched from journalism to literary agency, setting up Curtis Brown Australia, then the first literary agency in Australia and now the biggest.

After moving to the London office of Curtis Brown, where he continued as a literary agent, he joined the London publisher Martin Secker & Warburg as publishing director. In his 'retirement' he returned to his first love: writing.

He is the author of three best-selling history books. He is also the proud holder of British, American and Australian private pilot's licences, and has flown all over Australia, Europe and the United States in single-engined aircraft. He lives in France.

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