Secret Fleets - Cairns, Lynne

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Résumé :
Contrary to what many Australians believe, during 1942 Japanese submarines were active in Australian waters and Japanese spy planes made surveillance flights over our major cities. With enemy submarines patrolling off the Western Australian coast, Fremantle became an important international submarine base, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. During the war Fremantle played host to over 170 Allied submarines, with submarines of the United States, British and Dutch navies making a total of 416 war patrols out of the port between March 1942 and August 1945. The secrecy surrounding the operation of the Fremantle submarine base meant that its existence was little known at the time and, until now, has been largely forgotten by history.

Biographie:
Lynne Cairns is a Western Australian author and historian. While working as a graphic designer and fine artist, she completed a degree and a post graduate diploma in history, at Murdoch University. This led to employment as an assistant curator at the Western Australian Maritime Museum.While there, she researched and wrote Fremantle's Secret Fleets: Allied submarines based in Western Australia during World War II (WA Museum, 1995), and co-wrote (with Graeme Henderson) Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks 1881-1900, (UWA Press, 1995). An expanded and updated edition of Fremantle's Secret Fleets was published in 2012 as Secret Fleets: Fremantle's World War II Submarine Base (Western Australian Museum, 2012).After leaving the Museum, she completed a Master of Arts degree. Her dissertation, 'Women's Work in the Swan River Colony, 1829-1850' researched the role of women in the early settlement of Western Australia.This interest is reflected in her historical novels Where Wild Black Swans are Flying, and (for young readers) Cast Away. Her latest novel, soon to be published, is a mystery set in 1890s Western Australia, in the goldrush town that was to become Kalgoorlie.Ms. Cairns lives in Western Australia with her husband. She enjoys researching history, writing fiction and poetry, and art....

Sommaire:
Lynne Cairns is an Australian author, artist and historian. Her first historical novels were set in the first years of white settlement in Western Australia. But, with Gold Town we move forward to the exciting gold rush years of the 1890s. Lynne also writes poetry and short stories, and is author or co-author of maritime history books about shipwrecks and submarines. You can learn more about Lynne and her books at her webpage: lynnecairns.com...