The Truth is so Precious by Malcolm Baker

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges. Signed by author. Previous owner has added opinions to title page.

Malcolm Barker was born in Perth in 1930. His grandfather and father were editors of the North West Echo, which ceased in 1930. In the 1970s, Malcolm Barker and his mother visited Broome and were shown his father's printing press that had been in storage since the 1930s by Sam Male.

With the assistance of the Broome Shire, the press was sent to Malcolm in Perth, where it was restored and used to print Christmas cards before being displayed in the Broome Museum.

This book details how sending out the Christmas cards led to:

• The Koombana search project team approached the RAAF to locate the steamer lost in 1912.
• The formation of the HMAS Sydney Research Group.
• The pinpointing of the location of the German Raider HSK Kormoran.
• The location of the storm front that had scattered the Japanese invasion force in 1942 was north of Port Headland.