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Abused by Mother England |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Robert Sherrod |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 3,939 Words, 23,772 Characters |
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THE GREAT BETRAYAL
Britain, Australia, and the Outset
of the Pacific War, 1939-42
David Day
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989
338 pp., $ 19.95
There was a time, for a few weeks in 1942, when the most exciting place to be in the whole world was Australia. It was "a most crucial time in Australian history when the possibility of a successful Japanese invasion was very real," says David Day in this fascinating, erratic book.
At this early stage of the Pacific war we could believe the recently scorned Japanese capable of almost anything. They had knocked out the U.S. battle line at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, at a cost of only twenty-nine planes; two days later they sank the Prince of Wales and the Repulse off the coast of Malaya, losing only four aircraft. Guam s...
. . .
...arbor.
Day occasionally remembers that Australia was a small cog in a big wheel, but he suffers from what Roosevelt used to call "localities," which is a very human failing. He never recognizes that the Pacific war could have been fought without Australia, and that the most important avenue to Japan was through the Central Pacific. Sometimes being a citizen of a small power can be hell.
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