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On our doorstep : when Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese /

By March 1942, the Japanese had steamrolled through Malaya, laid siege to Singapore and bombed Darwin with the same ferocity they had dealt Pearl Harbor. Nothing could stop them. Their next step was inevitable, surely, the invasion and occupation of Australia. Meanwhile, as Australian prime minister...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collie, Craig (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Crows Nest, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, [2020]
Subjects:
Curtin, John, > 1885-1945.
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965.
World War, 1939-1945 > Australia.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Australia.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Australian.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945 > Australia > Darwin (N.T.)
Bombing, Aerial > Australia > Darwin (N.T.)
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese.
Australia > Politics and government > 1901-1945.
Australia > History > 1939-1945.
Australia > History, Military > 20th century.
Australia > Foreign relations > Japan.
Japan > Foreign relations > Australia.
Darwin (N.T.) > History > Bombardment, 1942.
Table of Contents:
  • Acronyms
  • Maps
  • Grazing gazelles
  • Unstoppable
  • Gibraltar of the East
  • Frontier town
  • Great and powerful friends
  • Home fires burning
  • Expendable
  • Watchers of the north
  • Night of the midgets
  • The turning tide
  • The invasion of Australia
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.