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Sydney: Macmillan. 2016. Very Good+ condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 463 pages. 1942 is the story of desperate bravery and criminal stupidity. Most of all, it is the story of Australians left high and dry in those fisrt few months of 1942, under the looming shadow of invasion, and the steps that an inexperienced leader, John Curtin, to to help save his country in its darkest days. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.
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- Title 1942: Australia's Greatest Peril
- Author Bob Wurth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Pages 463
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pan MacMillan, Sydney
- Date 2008
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781405038607 / 1405038608
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Japan, World War, 1939-1945 - Australia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009367113
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.542
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Pan Macmillan Australia, 2008. Softcover. VG+ (Very Good plus). AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY1942 was the year of Australia's greatest peril as the nation awaited invasion from Japan. Darwin was devastated by bombing, Australian ships were torpedoed within sight of our coast, midget Japanese submarines attacked shipping in Sydney Harbour and Japanese forces on their inexorable march south invaded New Guinea and islands to Australia's near north. This is a true story of the genuine and imminent threat to Australia in that fateful year. On the beautiful inland Sea of Japan - the heartland of the Imperial Japanese Navy - and in frenetic wartime Tokyo, radical and passionate staff officers and their illogical admirals debated the invasion of an almost defenceless nation. The Imperial Japanese Army, meanwhile, opposed the attack, foreseeing a looming military quagmire. Behind the scenes, Australian, British and American defence chiefs all but dismissed the chances of holding Darwin and the north.…
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