Bibliograph

An awkward truth, the bombing of Darwin, February 1942, Peter Grose

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An awkward truth, the bombing of Darwin, February 1942, Peter Grose

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An awkward truth

Responsibility statement

Peter Grose

Sub title

the bombing of Darwin, February 1942

Summary

'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

Target audience

adult

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