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QANTAS at War Paperback - 2017

by Jim Eames


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  • Title QANTAS at War
  • Author Jim Eames
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
  • Date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781760293932 / 1760293938
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Australian
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Australia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017470614
  • Dewey Decimal Code 387.7

About the author

Jim Eames is author of The Country Undertaker, Six Feet Under Or Up in Smoke, Taking to the Skies and The Flying Kangaroo. As one of Australia's first aviation writers, and former press secretary to the Minister for Aviation and former Director of Public Affairs for Qantas, he is a man who has lived and breathed aviation. He also tells a great yarn.
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