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ISBN	9781460750926
Name	Townsend, Ian author.
Title	Line of fire
Cover title	after Pearl Harbor came Rabaul. The true story of a forgotten battle, a lost family, and an 11-year-old Australian boy shot as a spy
Published	Sydney, N.S.W. : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2017
Description	x, 309 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes	"Fourth Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.
Notes	Contains biographical information.
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-306)
Summary	After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese swept into the South Pacific to capture the beautiful and strategic port of Rabaul, in the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Rabaul was to become the focus of one of the bloodiest wars and longest battles in history. Germany wanted it; the US wanted it; the British hadn't wanted Australia to get it in the first place; and Australia desperately needed it. The true, previously untold, story of an 11-year-old Australian boy Richard Manson and his mother, Marjorie, is a story of gold and volcanoes, poverty and ambition, secrets and betrayal. It's the story of a tropical paradise destroyed by the geology that made it beautiful and strategically desirable. It's the story of the tectonic forces that made Rabaul a battlefield in two world wars, and a story of the small steps that can lead to disaster. But ultimately it?s the gripping and tragic story of a seemingly ordinary family on the wrong side of history - the young boy would be taken by Japanese secret police to the base of a volcano in New Guinea and shot as a spy. So ended a young life and a remarkable journey for what seemed to be an average working-class family caught up in one of the biggest battles of the Pacific War.
Target audience note	General.
Subjects	Manson, Richard
	Family
	Manson, Richard
	Family
	World War (1939-1945)
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Papua New Guinea -- Biography
Genre	Biographies
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Biographies . Family . Manson, Richard . World War (1939-1945) . World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul . World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Papua New Guinea -- Biography . Authors: Townsend, Ian . Classification: BIOG 940 TOW .

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