The Last Bastion

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Lansdowne
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1984
Edition: First Edition

Description: 264 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. This Is The Story Of A Major Power Struggle, With Bitter Conflct Between Canberra, London And Washington.

Publishers Description: ‘We are the last bastion between the Japanese and the west coast of America. If you let us fall, America itself is in danger.’This appeal, broadcast by Australia’s Prime Minister John Curtin to the United States in 1942, signalled the greatest crisis in Australia’s history.The Last Bastion is the story of a major power struggle, with bitter conflict between Canberra, London and Washington. The most important figures are Curtin, Menzies, Roosevelt, Churchill, MacArthur and Blamey.Drawing on both published and unpublished documents from Australian, British and US sources, some of which had only recently been released, Kristin Williamson has imaginatively recreated the events of the three most crucial years in the history of Australia.

ISBN: 0701818476