Author: WILLIAMSON, KRISTIN.
Title: The Last Bastion.
Description: 4to; pp. 264; numerous illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth, discoloured dustjacket, spine and corners bumped, a good copy. Sydney, Lansdowne, 1984. A story of a major power struggle during World War 2, with bitter conflict between Canberra, London and Washington. The most important figures are Curtin, Menzies, Roosevelt, Churchill, MacArthur and Blamey. Drawing on published and unpublished documents the author has imaginatively recreated the events of the three most crucial years in the history of Australia. Britain was committed to fighting Hitler and Australia fell out of the United States defence perimeter.

Keywords: military Australian WWII World War II politics government Second Two 2 America Japan Japanese American invasion Darwin bombing