Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew by Mike Carlton
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Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew by Mike Carlton

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781741668391
Author: Mike Carlton
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: William Heinemann
Place: North Sydney NSW
Year: 2010
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 706 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action or endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth.

Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across Australia. In three tumultuous years, they did battle with the forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Vichy French and, finally, the Imperial Japanese Navy.

They were nearly lost in a hurricane in the Atlantic. In the Mediterranean, in 1941 they were bombed by the Luftwaffe and the Italian Air Force for months on end until, ultimately, during the disastrous evacuation of the Australian army from Crete, their ship took a direct hit and thirteen men were killed.

After the fall of Singapore in 1942, HMAS Perth was hurled into the forlorn campaign to stem the Japanese advance towards Australia. Off the coast of Java in March that year, she met an overwhelming enemy naval force. Firing until her ammunition literally ran out, she was sunk with the loss of 353 of her crew, including her much-loved captain and the Royal Australian Navy’s finest fighting sailor, "Hardover" Hec Waller.

Another 328 men were taken into Japanese captivity, most to become slave labourers in the infinite hell of the Burma-Thai railway. Many died there, victims of unspeakable atrocity. Only 218 men, less than a third of her crew, survived to return home at war’s end.

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