- Title:
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Maralinga
- Written by:
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Judy Nunn
- Published by:
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Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
- Published:
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November 01 2009
- Read by:
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Deidre Rubenstein
- Number of CDs / Tapes:
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14
- Duration:
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17 hours 30 minutes
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- Genre:
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General
- Available Date:
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November 28 2009
- ISBN:
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9781742335292
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781742335292
- BAB:
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MP3 091134;CD 091150
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About this book:
Simultaneous release of the latest guaranteed bestseller by Judy Nunn.
The power to love, the power to hate, the power to destroy human existence... It is a deadly cocktail.
During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided ... without its people's knowledge. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere; an atomic weapons testing ground; an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious men - a cocktail for disaster. Such is Maralinga in the spring of 1956.
Maralinga is a story of British Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, who accepts a twelve-month posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion; Harold Dartleigh, Deputy Director of MI-6 and his undercover operative Gideon Melbray; Australian Army Colonel Nick Stratton and the enigmatic Petraeus Mitchell, bushman and anthropologist. They all find themselves in a violent and unforgiving landscape, infected with the unique madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates.
Maralinga is also a story of love; a love so strong that it draws the adventurous young English journalist Elizabeth Hoffman halfway around the world in search of the truth. And Maralinga is a story of heartbreak; heartbreak brought to the innocent First Australians who had walked their land unhindered for 40,000 years.
Maralinga ... a desolate place where history demands an emerging nation choose between hell and reason.