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Line of Fire

By Ian , Manson , Richard;Townsend

Book information

Publisher
4th Estate;Fourth Estate
ISBN
9781460750926, 9781460705520, 1460750926
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2817745 bytes)
Pages
x, 309 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1939-1945 -- Atrociti1939-1945 -- Children -- Papua New Guinea -- Biogr1939-1945 -- Papua New Guinea;World War1939-1945--Atrocities--Papua New Guinea--Rabaul;Wo1939-1945--Children--Papua New Guinea;World War1939-1945--Papua New Guinea;History;Biographies;MaAustralian;Atrocities;Australians;Australians--PapRichard -- Family;World WarRichard;Manson

Description

The little known and intriguing WWII story of an eleven-year-old Australian schoolboy who was shot by the Japanese in Rabaul in 1942 as a suspected spy.It's hard to imagine this story as being part of our past, but in 1942, an eleven-year-old Australian boy, Richard Manson, and his parents either side of him, were shot by the Japanese for suspected spying in Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.

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