Valiant for truth : the life of Chester Wilmot, war correspondent / Neil McDonald ; with Peter Brune.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Neil, author.

Brüne, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilmot, Chester.

Journalists--Australia--Biography.

Journalists.

War correspondents--Australia--Biography.

War correspondents.

World War, 1939-1945--Journalists--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 pages) : illustrations, photographs, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, New South Wales : New South, 2016.

Summary:

Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amphibious invasion at Normandy and the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany, his voice stood above all others during BBC and ABC broadcasts throughout WWII. Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, and published The Struggle for Europe, his classic account of the Normandy invasion and its aftermath. He was tragically killed in the crash of the BOAC Comet over Greece in 1954, returning from Australia where he had been covering the Royal Tour. Valiant for Truth charts Wilmot's exceptional life as he reported key events of the twentieth century. It contains the most complete account to date of the command crisis in New Guinea in 1942 and his extraordinary feud with Australian Commander-in-Chief General Sir Thomas Blamey. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and Peter Brune unite to tell the story in this, the first full biography of one of the most important correspondents of WWII.

Contents:

First things

The shop

Half-cocked college guys

Ashamed to be an Englishman

Two captains and a mister

A lot of little cuts first

I could 'ave been a blinkin' General

Caught in the open

A desire to seek the underlying causes

Sand in their shoes

We are slow to learn

Syd is coming

Unnecessary Australian graves

The freedom of the press

A dangerous subversive and a Communist

Such a complete victory

Broadcasting as an arm of warfare

Hello BBC! Hello BBC!

Viva BBC!

Unhappy phrases

So big was Wilmot's story

A rather different spectacle

Passing to the other side.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 16, 2017).

ISBN:

9781742248035

1742248039

9781742242583

1742242588

OCLC:

1443933855