Maralinga / Judy Nunn ; read by Deidre Rubenstein.
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SoundPublisher number: BAB 091150 | Bolinda AudioSeries: Bolinda audioPublisher: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, 2009Edition: Retail editionDescription: 14 sound discs (CD) (17 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781742335292Subject(s): Audiobooks | Nuclear weapons -- Australia -- Fiction | Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Fiction | Talking books | Maralinga (S. Aust.) -- FictionDDC classification: A823.4 Read by Deidre Rubenstein.Summary: The power to love, the power to hate, the power to destroy human existence, it is 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 twelve-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.
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Read by Deidre Rubenstein.
The power to love, the power to hate, the power to destroy human existence, it is 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 twelve-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.
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