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Online-Ressource (294 p)
ISBN:
9780803240988
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At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur's arrival and his reception in Melbourne and a flight with the daring Dutch flier Capt. Hans Smits. More frequently, Lardner wrote about the ordinary day and the average person. Traveling throughout the country, in Southwest Passage Lardner offers a glimpse of Australia in the 1940s and generates warmth and ad
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; I: The Unready; II: Westward (Censored) Ho!; III: Convoy; IV: All Ashore; V: The Shirtsleeve Baedeker: (Wartime Edition); VI: The Last Bastion; VII: MacArthur and MacArthuriana; VIII: Road Company; IX: Darwin; X: Japs, Mostly Dead; XI: The Planes We Fight With; XII: Dakota in the Red Dust; XIII: As the Dutchman Flies; XIV: City Life; XV: Log of the Firecracker; XVI: Port of Bombs and Butterflies; XVII: Between Zeros; XVIII: Seven Deadly Young Men; XIX: Coral Sea; XX: Diggers at Work; XXI: Behind the Lines; XXII: The Tasman Bumps
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XXIII: Homeward: the Odd PageNotes; Glossary
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803253292
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803240988
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Southwest Passage : The Yanks in the Pacific
Language:
English
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