The Resource Australia's secret army, Michael Vietch
Australia's secret army, Michael Vietch
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The item Australia's secret army, Michael Vietch represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Australia's secret army, Michael Vietch represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Hidden deep in the jungles and high in the mountains of the Southwest Pacific during the Second World War, Australia's secret army - the Coastwatchers - reported every move of the Japanese invaders to Allied intelligence. Following the First World War, the Coastwatcher organisation was formed from European planters, missionaries and patrol officers living in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. All volunteers, they were tasked with keeping an eye on Australia's porous northern border and providing early warnings via radio. When the Second World War came to the Pacific, however, overnight the Coastwatchers found themselves no longer just observers but spies operating behind enemy lines. Besides evading the enemy's desperate efforts to hunt them down, the Coastwatchers battled exhaustion, tropical diseases and malnutrition, as well as the ever-present spectre of capture, torture and death. Yet without the Coastwatchers' crucial courage and intelligence, key moments of the Pacific War may have turned out very differently
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Australia's secret army
- Title
- Australia's secret army
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Vietch
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Hidden deep in the jungles and high in the mountains of the Southwest Pacific during the Second World War, Australia's secret army - the Coastwatchers - reported every move of the Japanese invaders to Allied intelligence. Following the First World War, the Coastwatcher organisation was formed from European planters, missionaries and patrol officers living in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. All volunteers, they were tasked with keeping an eye on Australia's porous northern border and providing early warnings via radio. When the Second World War came to the Pacific, however, overnight the Coastwatchers found themselves no longer just observers but spies operating behind enemy lines. Besides evading the enemy's desperate efforts to hunt them down, the Coastwatchers battled exhaustion, tropical diseases and malnutrition, as well as the ever-present spectre of capture, torture and death. Yet without the Coastwatchers' crucial courage and intelligence, key moments of the Pacific War may have turned out very differently
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Veitch, Michael
- Dewey number
- 940.5486
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Coastal surveillance
- Coast defenses
- Military surveillance
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Australia's secret army, Michael Vietch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- cartographic image
- Content type code
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- txt
- cri
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000072006767
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780733648472
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1302575102
- Label
- Australia's secret army, Michael Vietch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- cartographic image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- cri
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000072006767
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 340 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780733648472
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1302575102
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