Guilty or Innocent? : The Gordon Bennett Case by Mark Clisby

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small mark on front endpage now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

Many Australians, in a typically Australian fashion, recall Gordon Bennett as 'the bloke who shot through and left his troops at Singapore'.

Whether this is a fair assessment or not, there is no doubt that General Gordon Bennett's escape from Singapore in February 1942 left an ineradicable mark on Australia's military and legal history and that the rights and wrongs of his actions will be debated forever. (book flap)