Title: more info about the war years
Review: The book mentions en passant a fascinating episode during the worst days of World War 2 for Australia. This was just after Pearl Harbor was bombed and the Japanese took Singapore. Australia's army was mostly overseas, in North Africa, while the Americans were rocked back on their heels and had yet to deploy troops to Australia. The book says that panic seized Australia, with people in Perth fleeing inland, and likewise in other cities. I grew up in Australia during the 70s and 80s, and I never heard mention of this in the books I read, or in the accounts from Aussies who lived through that time. I don't doubt what the current book describes, yet greater details about that brief and fraught period would have been a welcome addition to the narrative.After all, it may well have been that people from that time simply were reluctant to relate of this because of sheer embarrassment, and so that later histories just omitted it.
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