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The Pacific War Uncensored - A War Correspondent's Unvarnished Account of the Fight Against Japan (Hardcover)
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The Pacific War Uncensored - A War Correspondent's Unvarnished Account of the Fight Against Japan (Hardcover)
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"He was one of the last great foreign correspondents" - Larry
Meredith, United Press "The story of how Guard gate-crashed
journalism is in itself an epic."- Newspaper World magazine
"...rate with the best reporting of this or any other war."- Hugh
Ballie, United Press President Harold Guard became a war
correspondent after he had been invalided out of the Royal Navy;
thereafter, he gained a front row seat to many of the most dramatic
events of the century. In March 1942, he arrived in Australia,
having narrowly escaped from Japanese forces invading Singapore.
His dispatches from that disastrous front prompted one observer to
comment on"the crisis days when everybody except Harold Guard was
trying to hush up the real situation." Over the next three years he
was to have many more adventures reporting on the Pacific War,
including firsthand experience of flying with the U.S. Air Force on
22 bombing missions, camping with Allied forces in the deadly
jungles of New Guinea, and taking part in attacks from amphibious
landing craft on enemy occupied territory. He also travelled into
the undeveloped areas of Australia's northern territories to report
on the construction of the airbases that were being built in
preparation for defending the country against the advancing
Japanese. Harold Guard passed away in 1986; however thanks to years
of work by his grandson John Tring in assembling his dispatches,
private correspondence, telegrams, and audio accounts, the full
story of Guard's experiences and observations during the Pacific
War can finally be told.
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