TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collie,Craig
TI  - On our doorstep: when Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese 
SN  - 1760632287
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW, Austraila
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Curtin, John,
KW  - Churchill, Winston,
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Australia
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Participation, Australian
KW  - Participation, Japanese
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Pacific Area
KW  - Darwin (N.T.)
KW  - Bombing, Aerial
KW  - Aerial operations, Japanese
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1901-1945
KW  - History
KW  - 1939-1945
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Japan
KW  - Bombardment, 1942
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acronyms -- Maps -- Grazing gazelles -- Unstoppable -- Gibraltar of the East -- Frontier town -- Great and powerful friends -- Home fires burning -- Expendable -- Watchers of the north -- Night of the midgets -- The turning tide -- The invasion of Australia -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 'I can't understand the mentality of the Australian people. One day they are in a panic about the war and the next they want more race meetings.' - John Curtin. By March 1942, the Japanese had steamrolled through Malaya, laid siege to Singapore, and bombed Darwin with the same ferocity they had dealt Pearl Harbor. Nothing could stop them. Their next step was inevitable, surely: the invasion and occupation of Australia. Meanwhile, as Australian prime minister John Curtin was battling with Winston Churchill to get troops back from overseas to defend their homeland, he was also positioning to ensure the United States would be there with us to fend off the approaching enemy. And at home, people pitched in as best they could and in any way to frustrate the invader. They all played their part, torn between 'she'll be right' and near panic. On Our Doorstep is the story of how Australia and Australians, the government, the military and the people - prepared to face this calamity, and the events that persuaded them of its probability. In the end, Japan found it had stretched itself beyond the reliability of its supply line, but had it ever intended to invade Australia?
ER  -