$34.29
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2017
Summary
Flagship: HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War
In 1924, the battle cruiser HMAS Australia I was sunk off Sydney Heads, a ship that had once been the pride of the navy and the nation, having saved Australia from a German squadron in World War I. Obsolete after the war, she was sunk in a day of national mourning.
Four years later, in 1928, the RAN acquired a new ship of the same name, the fast and modern heavy cruiser HMAS Australia II. During the Depression, the navy languis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857987785 |
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| ISBN-10: | 085798778X |
| Author: | Mike Carlton |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 840g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 155mm x 48mm |
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About The Author
Mike Carlton
Mike Carlton has worked in Australian media for over fifty years in radio, television, and newspapers. He began as a cadet journalist at the ABC, became a war correspondent in Vietnam, and was the ABC’s Bureau Chief in Jakarta. He also reported for the ABC from London, New York, and major Asian capitals. In television, he worked on the ABC’s ground-breaking This Day Tonight in the 1970s and for Nine Network News and A Current Affair.
In 1980, Mike turned to talk radio, first in Sydney, then in London, where he won a Sony Radio Academy award in 1993 for Britain’s best talk breakfast show. His radio satire on current affairs, Friday News Review, was ‘must listening’ in Australia and the UK.
For many years, he wrote a popular weekly column for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Mike has had a life-long passion for naval history and is the author of Cruiser, First Victory, Flagship, The Scrap Iron Flotilla, and Dive!. In 2025 he received a Navy Gold Commendation for his outstanding commitment and contribution to the Royal Australian Navy.
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