Written by former RAN Commander Alun Evans, this book is an engrossing story of Australia's growing awareness of its vulnerability from the days when the colony was entertained by the arrival of foreign ships, through the period when strange ships were perceived as a threat, to the time when early, far-sighted Australians faced continuing opposition from British Admiralty to their claims that Australian needed its own navy.
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