Murder on HMAS Australia the wartime crime that made legal history Judith Crosland 9781326689322 Books
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Pacific War. 1942. Hmas Australia hunts down Japan's naval presence with little success. Morale is low, homosexuality rife. Two stokers Albert and Ted are accused of murder. Only one of them is guilty. A court martial sentences both men to hang. On appeal, the High Court of Australia holds the sentence wrong in law. Together the ship's captain, the stokers' defence counsel and a senior Labour minister seize this legal impasse as a political opportunity to claw back naval power from Whitehall. Albert and Ted, meanwhile, await their final sentence by spending eight bleak years in three prisons suffering one another's company. In this true personal story, it is Albert who proves himself a fighter and a man of spirit.
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This is a terrific crafted tale of a real life naval war crime, filled out by the author's imagining of the personal events and details underlying the factual story that draw the reader into a human experience. Not just for war afficionados.
The book mixes pure constitutional history (of the British Commonwealth, as it was then), a speculative reconstruction of an actual murder and the people involved, and the progress of the legal cases arising out of the first two subjects.
For people who know how to read between the lines, it will also cast some light on the relationships among the Allies during World War II, a subject on which some historians, including Churchill, tried with only partial success to 'improve' the facts.
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