Description
Title: Australia at War
Author: Johnston, George Henry
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1942
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 265 pages
Comments: This is an early war account of Australian soldiers during World War Two.
The author was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack.
Johnston was Australia’s first accredited war correspondent in World War II. He reported from six countries and witnessed the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in 1945. He was a role model and hero to post-war reporters in Sydney and Melbourne because of his style, personality, reporting skills and capacity to write racy books based on wartime experiences. Veteran journalist Jack Cannon described Johnston as the best and fastest reporter he had seen in Australia. Johnston wrote the classic anti-war novel My Brother Jack which punctured two great Australian cultural pillars – the Anzac legend and the Australian suburban dream.
