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Southwest Passage - The Yanks in the Pacific (Paperback, 0 Ed)
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Southwest Passage - The Yanks in the Pacific (Paperback, 0 Ed)
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List price R663
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Discovery Miles 5 480
You Save R115 (17%)
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At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John
Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the
first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his
excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned
vignettes of MacArthur's arrival and his reception in Melbourne and
a flight with the daring Dutch flier Capt. Hans Smits. More
frequently, Lardner wrote about the ordinary day and the average
person. Traveling throughout the country, in Southwest Passage
Lardner offers a glimpse of Australia in the 1940s and generates
warmth and admiration for World War II fighters in the Pacific,
whether Australian, New Zealander, aboriginal, or American. For
generations of readers who have learned about World War II with the
benefit of hindsight, Lardner's tone, style, and selected topics
give more than just entertaining anecdotes about the military in
the Pacific; they are a view into the culture and society of
midcentury America.
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