| Main Title: |
Air disaster Canberra : the plane crash that destroyed a government / Andrew Tink. |
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| Author: |
Tink, A.A. (Andrew A.)
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| Imprint: |
NewSouth Publishing, 2013. |
| Collation: |
illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, photographs, hbk, ; 24 cm. x, 309 pages, [16] pages of plates : |
| Subject: |
Menzies, Robert Gordon Sir, 1894-1978
Aircraft accidents
World War, 1939-1945
Military history
Politics and Government - Australia
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| ISBN: |
9781742233574 (hardback) |
| Notes: |
1940. Wartime Australia. Key members of Menzies' government die in a fiery plane crash. What went wrong and what happened next? In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a plane a Hudson A16 97 carrying ten people, including three cabinet leaders, crashed into a ridge near Canberra.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-304) and index.
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