THEY SANG LIKE KANGAROOS: AUSTRALIA'S TINPOT NAVY IN THE GREAT WAR

摘要

Oh dear. My grandmother often said that if you can not say something nice about someone, then say nothing at all. My grandfather, a veteran of both world wars, however said if you point a rifle at someone: then shoot to kill. Regrettably for this book I will take the latter point of view. Anthony Delano has attempted to put forward a new light on the history of the Royal Australian Navy during World War I, but does so poorly, yet he has obviously done quite a lot of original research. The back cover states the book "offers yarns from the earliest days of the RAN that are largely unheard"; and pretty much this is what it is- a rambling stumble through the history of the Australian Navy at war during the period 1914-1918.