Darwin 1942
Australia's Darkest Hour
Published on 5. June 2015
238 pages
978-1-317-43136-7 (ISBN)
Description
On 19 February 1942 the Japanese air force bombed Darwin. Whilst this fact is well known, very few people know exactly what happened. Timothy Hall was the first writer to be given acess to all the official reports of the time and as a result he has been able to reveal exactly what happened on that dreadful day - a day which Sir Paul Hasluck (17th Governor-General of Australia) later described as 'a day of national shame'. The sequence of events in Darwin that day certainly did not reflect the military honour that the War Cabinet wanted people to believe. On the contrary, for what really happened was a combination of chaos, panic and, in many cases, cowardice on an unprecented scale.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
33 Halftones, black and white
File size
32,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-43136-7 (9781317431367)
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10/2016
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05/2015
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Person
Hall, Timothy
Content
1. Introduction 2. Prologue 3. The Warning 4. The Attack on the Harbour 5. The Mistakes 6. The Attack on the Aerodrome 7. The Defenceless Town 8. The Confusing Day 9. Exodus 10. The Looting 11. Who Needs Civil Defence? 12. The Brisbane Line 13. The Royal Commission 14. Broome - A Familiar Story 15. Epilogue 16. Bibliography and Sources. Index
