Andrew Tink

Air Disaster Canberra (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a Hudson bomber - the A16-97 - carrying ten people, including three cabinet ministers, crashed into a ridge near Canberra. In the ghastly inferno that followed the crash, the nation lost its key war leaders. Over the next twelve months, it became clear that the passing of Geoffrey Street, Sir Henry Gullett and James Fairbairn had destabilized Robert Menzies' wartime government. As a direct but delayed consequence, John Curtin became prime minister in October 1941. Controversially, this book also tells the story of whether Air Minister Fairbairn, rather than the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot Bob Hitchcock, had been at the controls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New South Wales Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742241425
• Artikelnr.: 38101050

Autorenporträt

Andrew Tink has served as shadow attorney general and shadow Liberal leader of the House in the New South Wales Parliament. He is the author of William Charles Wentworth: Australia's Greatest Native Son, which won "The Nib" CAL Waverley Award for Literature and Lord Sydney: The Life and Times of Tommy Townshend.