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Line of Fire (MP3)
Released the same day as the standard print edition
Title:
Line of Fire (MP3)
Written by:
Ian Townsend 
Read by:
David Tredinnick 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
8 hours 56 minutes 
MP3 size:
390 MB 
Published:
February 01 2017 
Available Date:
February 01 2017 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781489380104 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Australian 
Publisher:
ABC Audio 
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The little-known and intriguing WWII story of an 11-year-old Australian schoolboy who was shot by the Japanese in Rabaul in 1942 as a suspected spy.

It's hard to imagine this story as being part of our past, but in 1942, an 11-year-old Australian boy, Richard Manson, and his parents either side of him, were shot by the Japanese for suspected spying in Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. Acclaimed Fourth Estate author and award-winning science journalist Ian Townsend has uncovered a fascinating story of WWII, little known to most Australians. Centring on the hotspot (in every sense) that was Rabaul in WWII, his account is an intriguing narrative, which weaves together Australian history, military conflict and science – with volcanology being the peculiar science which drew the Americans, Japanese and Australians together in conflict in the Pacific in the 1940s – and the story of one ordinary but doomed Australian family. Like The Hare with Amber Eyes, this is a fascinating work of narrative non-fiction, a story of spies, volcanoes, history, conflict and war, set against the romantic, dramatic and ultimately tragic backdrop of Rabaul in WWII.