Valiant for Truth The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent
Innbundet /
2016
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9781742235172
Published
2016-12-01
Publisher
NewSouth Publishing
Weight
922 gr
Height
238 mm
Width
157 mm
Thickness
48 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
464
Biographical note
Neil McDonald is a film historian and author. Hisbooks include Kokoda Front Line: the amazing storyof legendary Australian war cameraman Damien Parer(revised edition 2012). He is co-author with PeterBrune of 200 Shots, a pictorial account of Australianfighting on the Kokoda Track.Peter Brune is the bestselling author of A Bastardof a Place: the Australians in Papua; Those RaggedBloody Heroes: from the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach1942 and most recently Descent into Hell: The fallof Singapore – Pudu and Changi – the Thai Burmarailway.
<i>‘This is a wonderfully evocative, superbly detailed account of a truly great Australian who was an exemplar of journalism at its best. Wilmot, a demon for accuracy, saw it all, chronicled it all, and it is only right that his extraordinary life in turn be so superbly brought back to life.’</i> – Peter FitzSimons
Chester Wilmot brought the triumphs and tragedies of warfare into the homes of millions.
Reginald William Winchester (Chester) Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent,broadcaster, journalist and writer. From the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobrukand Derna, to the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, to the epic struggle along thefamed Kokoda Track to the momentous amphibious invasion at Normandy and the eventual defeat of NaziGermany, his voice stood above all others during BBC and ABC broadcasts throughout WW2.
Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, before he was tragically killed in thecrash of BOAC Comet in 1954. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and Peter Brune unite to tell the story in the first full biography of this enigmatic figure.
Reginald William Winchester (Chester) Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent,broadcaster, journalist and writer. From the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobrukand Derna, to the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, to the epic struggle along thefamed Kokoda Track to the momentous amphibious invasion at Normandy and the eventual defeat of NaziGermany, his voice stood above all others during BBC and ABC broadcasts throughout WW2.
Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, before he was tragically killed in thecrash of BOAC Comet in 1954. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and Peter Brune unite to tell the story in the first full biography of this enigmatic figure.
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Chester Wilmot brought the triumphs and tragedies of warfare into the homes of millions. He was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and Peter Brune unite to tell the story in the first full biography of this enigmatic figure.
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Product details
ISBN
9781742235172
Published
2016-12-01
Publisher
NewSouth Publishing
Weight
922 gr
Height
238 mm
Width
157 mm
Thickness
48 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
464
Biographical note
Neil McDonald is a film historian and author. Hisbooks include Kokoda Front Line: the amazing storyof legendary Australian war cameraman Damien Parer(revised edition 2012). He is co-author with PeterBrune of 200 Shots, a pictorial account of Australianfighting on the Kokoda Track.Peter Brune is the bestselling author of A Bastardof a Place: the Australians in Papua; Those RaggedBloody Heroes: from the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach1942 and most recently Descent into Hell: The fallof Singapore – Pudu and Changi – the Thai Burmarailway.