AtendimentoFavoritos
Acessar conta
Carrinho0

Meu Carrinho

    Total

    Finalização da Compra
    Buscar
    Whisky Tango Foxtrot
    Cód:
    491_9780994639011
    Eighty-two men died in the collision between the destroyer HMAS Voyager and aircraft carrier Melbourne on a beautiful moonlit night in the summer of 1964. Jim Price only survived because of his mate Charlie, but Charlie didn't make it. Was it just negligence on the part of Voyager's captain, known throughout the Navy as Drunken Duncan, or did the rot go deeper? The suicide of Charlie’s widow, Nola, worsens the tragedy and Jim’s bitterness over what he sees as criminal negligence by Drunken Duncan.Jim falls in love with Nola’s friend Jenny, whose brother, Paul, is threatened with conscription into the Army. Her mother, Shirley, founds an organisation called Save Our Sons campaigning against conscription and the Vietnam War.Jim commences officer training at about the time a Royal Commission into the disaster releases its findings, which are seen as a whitewash by Jim and his mates. What is justice? Jim wants to know. He joins several of his fellow survivors in a class action against the Navy and the Government but they meet with opposition from the authorities.On graduating from the naval college, Jim is posted to the Melbourne, deployed to Vietnam. He still experiences nightmares from his Voyager experience and his time in Vietnam is equally traumatic. He resigns from the Navy suffering from what we now call PTSD, although he doesn't know it. Only Jenny’s love and forgiveness can rescue him from deep depression but when he enrolls at Sydney University he is thrust into the midst of student demonstrations.Paul lost his fight to stay out of the Army and was sent to Vietnam but is discharged medically unfit due to a drug addiction. Back in Sydney, he absconds from his rehab program and disappears. In search of him, Jenny volunteers as a counsellor at the Wayside Chapel providing support to addicts in King’s Cross.Sydney has been invaded by American servicemen on R&R from Vietnam. Jenny’s father, Richard, sepa
    Veja mais

    Quem comprou também comprou

    Quem viu também comprou

    Quem viu também viu