Valiant for Truth
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Chester Wilmot brought the triumphs and tragedies of warfare into the homes of millions.
Reginald William Winchester (Chester) Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent,broadcaster, journalist and writer. From the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobrukand Derna, to the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, to the epic struggle along thefamed Kokoda Track to the momentous amphibious invasion at Normandy and the eventual defeat of NaziGermany, his voice stood above all others during BBC and ABC broadcasts throughout WW2.
Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, before he was tragically killed in thecrash of BOAC Comet in 1954. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and Peter Brune unite to tell the story in the first full biography of this enigmatic figure.
Reginald William Winchester (Chester) Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent,broadcaster, journalist and writer. From the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobrukand Derna, to the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, to the epic struggle along thefamed Kokoda Track to the momentous amphibious invasion at Normandy and the eventual defeat of NaziGermany, his voice stood above all others during BBC and ABC broadcasts throughout WW2.
Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, before he was tragically killed in thecrash of BOAC Comet in 1954. Bestselling authors Neil McDonald and Peter Brune unite to tell the story in the first full biography of this enigmatic figure.
Neil McDonald is a film historian and author. Hisbooks include Kokoda Front Line: the amazing storyof legendary Australian war cameraman Damien Parer(revised edition 2012). He is co-author with PeterBrune of 200 Shots, a pictorial account of Australianfighting on the Kokoda Track.
Peter Brune is the bestselling author of A Bastardof a Place: the Australians in Papua; Those RaggedBloody Heroes: from the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach1942 and most recently Descent into Hell: The fallof Singapore – Pudu and Changi – the Thai Burmarailway.
Peter Brune is the bestselling author of A Bastardof a Place: the Australians in Papua; Those RaggedBloody Heroes: from the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach1942 and most recently Descent into Hell: The fallof Singapore – Pudu and Changi – the Thai Burmarailway.