Description
Title: The Long Road North
Author: Tanner, Alex
Condition: Near Mint
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0646238167
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 242 pages
Comments: Early in World War II Australia and no east-west or north-south trunk roads; its rail system was hampered by breaks in rail gauges; there was no continuous rail connection between the southern states and Darwin and coastal shipping services were slow, inefficient and vulnerable to Japanese attack. Army transport units were responsible for the mammoth haulage of essential supplies, equipment and personnel. They were the vital link between the railheads of Alice Springs, Mount Isa and Larrimah. Their work has been hailed as one of the greatest transport efforts of World War II.
