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An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose (Paperback, 2009)

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Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that devastated Pearl Harbor only ten weeks earlier. There was a difference. More bombs fell on Darwin, more civilians were killed, and more ships were sunk. The raid led to the worst death toll from any event in Australia. The attackers bombed and strafed three hospitals, flattened shops, offices and the police barracks, shattered the Post Office and communications centre, wrecked Government House, and left the harbour and airfields burning and ruined. The people of Darwin abandoned their town, leaving it to looters, a few anti-aircraft batteries and a handful of dogged defenders with single-shot .303 rifles. Yet the story has remained in the shadows. Drawing on long-hidden documents and first-person accounts, Peter Grose tells what really happened and takes us into the lives of the people who were there. There was much to be proud of in Darwin that day: courage, mateship, determination and improvisation. But the dark side of the story involves looting, desertion and a calamitous failure of leadership. Australians ran away because they did not know what else to do. Absorbing, spirited and fast-paced, An Awkward Truth is a compelling and revealing story of the day war really came to Australia, and the motley bunch of soldiers and civilians who were left to defend the nation.

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Publisher
Allen & Unwin
ISBN-13
9781741756432
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Peter Grose
Publication Name
An Awkward Truth: the Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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230mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
380g

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Peter Grose
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia

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by lucychops04 Jul, 2019
A real eye opener of the truth. A City ignored at the worst time in history.
This is more a history book of what actually happened. And the events of that day were horrendous. We all know about the bombing of Darwin, but few of us know the facts. The book not only reveals "The Awkward Truth" but the awful truth. How brave some people were, but many others were cowards and greedy. It must have been a terrible time. Lucky most people had been evacuated.
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by sanbl-749011 Jun, 2020
Says it all
Tells the true story that the government wouldn't allow to be told at the time.
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