Valiant For Truth. The Life Of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: New South Publishing
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 493 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. (ex-library). Only One Small Stamp To The Inside Page. The Only Exception Is Some Light Shelf Wear To Bottom Edge.

Publishers Description: Chester Wilmot was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amphibious invasion at Normandy and the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany, his voice stood above all others during BBC and ABC broadcasts throughout WWII. Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, and published The Struggle for Europe, his classic account of the Normandy invasion and its aftermath. He was tragically killed in the crash of the BOAC Comet over Greece in 1954, returning from Australia where he had been covering the Royal Tour. Valiant for Truth charts Wilmots exceptional life as he reported key events of the twentieth century. It contains the most complete account to date of the command crisis in New Guinea in 1942 and his extraordinary feud with Australian Commander-in-Chief General Sir Thomas Blamey.

ISBN: 9781742235172