Mike Carlton

The Scrap Iron Flotilla (eBook, ePUB)

Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Some chroniclers are ideal authors for their subject, and some neglected, half-forgotten, or never known accounts of valour at sea need to be written before they are lost to memory. So it is with Mike Carlton and ... his latest naval history book The Scrap Iron Flotilla. The fusion of the journalist's eye for telling detail and the first class research from primary sources make this book a compelling tale ... Carlton's skill is that he can move the reader seamlessly from the personal and the particular to the enormous scope of the war in the Mediterranean ... This] is a valuable addition to any naval history collection and, I suggest essential reading for serving RAN members who wish to understand the spirit that animated their professional ancestors in battle eighty decades ago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Australia
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781760145484
• Artikelnr.: 63777593

Autorenporträt

In a working life of more than fifty years, Mike Carlton was one of Australia's best-known media figures in radio, television and newspapers.

Beginning as a cadet journalist at the ABC, he became a war correspondent in Vietnam and for three years was the ABC's Bureau Chief in Jakarta. He also reported for the ABC from London, New York and major Asian capitals. In television, he worked on the ABC's groundbreaking This Day Tonight current affairs program in the 1970s and for Nine Network News and A Current Affair.

In 1980 Mike turned to talk radio, first at Sydney's 2UE and then 2GB, and later at London's LBC Newstalk 97.3FM, where he won a coveted Sony Radio Academy award in 1993 for Britain's best talk breakfast show. His radio satire on current affairs, Friday News Review, was 'must listening' in Australia and the UK.

For many years he wrote a popular weekly column for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Mike has had a life-long passion for naval history and is the author of Cruiser, First Victory, Flagship and The Scrap Iron Flotilla.