The Pacific War Uncensored: A War Correspondent's Unvarnished Account of the Fight Against Japan - Couverture rigide

Guard, Harold

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1612000649 ISBN 13 : 9781612000640

Editeur : Casemate Publishers, 2011

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Harold Guard became a war correspondent after he had been invalided out of the navy following a submarine accident. Thereafter, he gained a front row seat to many of the most dramatic battles and events of the century. In March 1942, he arrived in Australia, having narrowly escaped from Japanese forces invading Singapore and Java. His dispatches from that disastrous front prompted one observer to comment on the crisis days when everybody except Harold Guard was trying to hush up the real situation. Over the next three years he was to have many more adventures reporting on the Pacific War, including firsthand experience of flying with the U.S. air force on 22 bombing missions, camping with Allied forces in the deadly jungles of New Guinea, and taking part in attacks from amphibious landing craft on enemy occupied territory. He also travelled into the undeveloped areas of Australias northern territories to report on the construction of the airbases that were being built in preparation for defending the country against the advancing Japanese. Harold Guard passed away in 1986; however thanks to years of work by his grandson John Tring in assembling his dispatches, private correspondence, telegrams, and audio accounts, the full story of Guards experiences and observations during the Pacific War can finally be told.

Revue de presse :

Life under gathering war clouds is also interesting. Some of the insights are not well known even today. This book is Mr. Guard s personal recollections and experiences. His bias and pros and cons concerning people and events make this work all the more fascinating. ...Stories like this, from personal recollections, are a great addition to the official histories we have had for the first several post-war decades. They shed light on some events and support others. I highly recommend this book. --Aeroscale UK

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Casemate Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1612000649
• ISBN 13: 9781612000640
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288