The war diaries of Kenneth Slessor

by (editor)

Clement Semmler

USED BOOK 

CONDITION

Hardcover with dust jacket.

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DESCRIPTION

Slessor was Australia’s Official War Correspondent in WWII.

He was in the UK in 1940, in the Middle East, 1941-1942, and the South West Pacific, 1943-1944.

He witnessed the Greek and Crete Campaigns and also the battles in Syria and North Africa including El Alamein.

In 1944 he resigned in a cloud of controversy.

His detailed and graphic war diaries of Australian military activity give a vivid view of the war.

PROD CODE : 0702218790-C1