Very Rude Awakening
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspapers devoted more pages to horse racing than to Hitler.That Sunday night the party came to a shattering halt when three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour, past eight electronic indicator loops, past six patrolling Royal Australian Navy ships, and past an anti-submarine net stretched across the inner harbour entrance. Their arrival…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-74176-245-7
- EAN: 9781741762457
- Produktnummer: 15875387
- Verlag: Allen & Unwin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'260 KB
Über den Autor
Peter Grose is a former publisher at Secker + Warburg, founder of Curtis Brown Australia, and was until recently the chairman of ACP (UK).
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