Australia Under Attack: Sydney And The Midget Submarines 1942
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On the night of 31 May 1942, three Japanese midget submarines slipped silently into Sydney Harbour, bringing the Second World War to Australia's most iconic waterway in a brazen act of aggression that shocked the nation to its core. Australia Under Attack: Sydney and the Midget Submarines 1942 chronicles this extraordinary episode in Australian wartime history, reconstructing the chaos, courage, and confusion of a night when anti-submarine nets were breached, a depot ship was torpedoed, and the myth of Australia's geographic isolation was shattered forever. Drawing on naval records, eyewitness accounts, and archival photography, the narrative presents a vivid and meticulously researched account of both the Japanese strategic ambition behind the raid and the Allied response that followed. Beyond the immediacy of the attack itself, this work illuminates the broader anxieties of a nation fighting a war on multiple fronts while its own shores came under direct threat, situating the Sydney Harbour raid within the wider Pacific theatre of World War II. The prose is authoritative yet accessible, balancing military detail with human drama to create a compelling portrait of a city suddenly and violently confronted with the reality of modern warfare. For anyone drawn to Australia's wartime experience or the overlooked naval campaigns of the Pacific, this account raises a haunting question: how close did the war truly come to Australia's doorstep?
Author: Various
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
On the night of 31 May 1942, three Japanese midget submarines slipped silently into Sydney Harbour, bringing the Second World War to Australia's most iconic waterway in a brazen act of aggression that shocked the nation to its core. Australia Under Attack: Sydney and the Midget Submarines 1942 chronicles this extraordinary episode in Australian wartime history, reconstructing the chaos, courage, and confusion of a night when anti-submarine nets were breached, a depot ship was torpedoed, and the myth of Australia's geographic isolation was shattered forever. Drawing on naval records, eyewitness accounts, and archival photography, the narrative presents a vivid and meticulously researched account of both the Japanese strategic ambition behind the raid and the Allied response that followed. Beyond the immediacy of the attack itself, this work illuminates the broader anxieties of a nation fighting a war on multiple fronts while its own shores came under direct threat, situating the Sydney Harbour raid within the wider Pacific theatre of World War II. The prose is authoritative yet accessible, balancing military detail with human drama to create a compelling portrait of a city suddenly and violently confronted with the reality of modern warfare. For anyone drawn to Australia's wartime experience or the overlooked naval campaigns of the Pacific, this account raises a haunting question: how close did the war truly come to Australia's doorstep?