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Maralinga
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Narrated by:
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Deidre Rubenstein
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By:
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Judy Nunn
About this listen
A simultaneous release of the latest guaranteed best seller by Judy Nunn....
The power to love, the power to hate, the power to destroy human existence: it's a deadly cocktail. During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided...without its people's knowledge. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere; an atomic weapons testing ground; an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious men - a cocktail for disaster. Such is Maralinga in the spring of 1956.
Maralinga is a story of British Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, who accepts a 12-month posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion; Harold Dartleigh, Deputy Director of MI-6 and his undercover operative Gideon Melbray; Australian Army Colonel Nick Stratton; and the enigmatic Petraeus Mitchell, bushman and anthropologist. They all find themselves in a violent and unforgiving landscape, infected with the unique madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates.
Maralinga is also a story of love; a love so strong that it draws the adventurous young English journalist Elizabeth Hoffman halfway around the world in search of the truth. And Maralinga is a story of heartbreak; heartbreak brought to the innocent First Australians who had walked their land unhindered for 40,000 years. Maralinga ... a desolate place where history demands an emerging nation choose between hell and reason.
©2009 Judy Nunn. (P)2009 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdWhat listeners say about Maralinga
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- Anonymous User
- 25-04-2024
Very moving
Very well researched and delivered with great character. A book that couldn’t be put down.
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- Jane
- 11-11-2018
Tradegy of Australian History's
loved the Book saddened by our History the treatment of Humans as guinea pigs. a sad tale. A tradgic legacy of destruction on Flora and Fauna but so very Governmental selfishness a part of history never told in School........why
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- Sue Gellmann
- 17-05-2024
Favourite Book Ever!
Wow! Mind blown! And the twist at the end, I didn't see coming. The way Judy weaves fiction with history is fabulous.
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- Joe
- 15-07-2017
Normally love Judy Nunn
I have enjoyed all Nunns books immensely, but this one bored me to tears. How much can you go on and on about a single bomb blast? I stopped 1/2 way through the book (about the time of the blast) when the press started on the post blast. Why someone would spend months writing a story about a split second bomb blast in the middle of a dessert, is beyond me. What a complete waste of time.
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