Valiant for Truth
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Valiant for Truth

The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent

  1. 518 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Valiant for Truth

The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent

About this book

Chester Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amphibious invasion at Normandy and the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany, his voice stood above all others during BBC and ABC broadcasts throughout WWII. Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, and published The Struggle for Europe, his classic account of the Normandy invasion and its aftermath. He was tragically killed in the crash of the BOAC Comet over Greece in 1954, returning from Australia where he had been covering the Royal Tour. Valiant for Truth charts Wilmot's exceptional life as he reported key events of the twentieth century. It contains the most complete account to date of the command crisis in New Guinea in 1942 and his extraordinary feud with Australian Commander-in-Chief General Sir Thomas Blamey. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and Peter Brune unite to tell the story in this, the first full biography of one of the most important correspondents of WWII.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Preface
  7. 1. First things
  8. 2. The shop
  9. 3. Half-cooked college guys
  10. 4. Ashamed to be an Englishman
  11. 5. Two captains and a mister
  12. 6. A lot of little cuts first
  13. 7. I could 'ave been a blinkin' general
  14. 8. Caught in the open
  15. 9. A desire to seek the underlying causes
  16. 10. Sand in their shoes
  17. 11. We are slow to learn
  18. 12. Syd is coming
  19. 13. Unnecessary Australian graves
  20. 14. The freedom of the press
  21. 15. A dangerous subversive and a communist
  22. 16. Such a complete victory
  23. 17. Broadcasting as an arm of warfare
  24. 18. Hello BBC! Hello BBC!
  25. 19. Viva BBC!
  26. 20. Unhappy phrases
  27. 21. So big was Wilmot's story...
  28. 22. A rather different spectacle
  29. 23. Passing to the other side
  30. Notes
  31. List of maps
  32. Bibliography
  33. Index