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Line of Fire

Line of Fire

by Ian Townsend
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 01/02/2017

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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 4th 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.

ISBN:
9781489380098
9781489380098
Category:
Diaries
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
01-02-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
8
Dimensions (mm):
134x146x28mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Ian Townsend

Ian Townsend is a journalist who worked for many year with ABC Radio National. He has won four national Eureka Prizes for science and medical journalism, and an Australian Human Rights Award for journalism.

His first novel, Affection, based on the 1900 plague outbreak, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the Colin Roderick Award, the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the National Year of Reading, and was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC award.

His second novel, The Devil’s Eye, was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Kirsten MacGregor, and their three daughters.

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