Neil McDonald with Peter Brune
Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent, NewSouth, Sydney, 2016
Chester Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amphibious invasion at Normandy and the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany, his voice stood above all others during BBC and ABC broadcasts throughout WWII.
Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, and published The Struggle for Europe, his classic account of the Normandy invasion and its aftermath … Valiant for Truth charts Wilmot’s exceptional life as he reported key events of the twentieth century. It contains the most complete account to date of the command crisis in New Guinea in 1942 and his extraordinary feud with Australian Commander-in-Chief General Sir Thomas Blamey. (blurb)
The book is reviewed for Honest History by John Shield. McDonald has long been a chronicler of Wilmot: see this book. An ABC spot from along the way with McDonald interviewed.
Honest History has many resources on Australian war correspondents and they can be found here, here and here. Also search under ‘Bean’.
