Air Disaster Canberra. The Plane Crash That Destroyed A Government

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: NewSouth
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 309 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 1940. Wartime Australia. Key members of Menzies government die in a fiery plane crash. What went wrong and what happened next In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a plane a Hudson A16-97 carrying ten people, including three cabinet leaders, crashed into a ridge near Canberra. In the ghastly inferno that followed the crash, the nation lost its key war leaders. Over the next twelve months, it became clear that the passing of Geoffrey Street, Sir Henry Gullett and James Fairbairn had destabilised Robert Menzies wartime government. As a direct but delayed consequence, John Curtin became prime minister in October 1941. Controversially, this book also tells the story of whether Air Minister Fairbairn, rather than the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot Bob Hitchcock, had been at the controls. Andrew Tink tells an engrossing and dramatic tale of a little-known aspect of Australias political history.

ISBN: 9781742233574