Kokoda: MacArthur And The Generals (Part 2)

Why did John Curtin defy Winston Churchill over Australia's returning convoy? What was the 'Badge 80' scandal that followed Thomas Blamey from the Victoria Police into the war? Why did MacArthur and Blamey discount intelligence that Japan would attack Port Moresby overland?

Join Al Murray and James Holland for part 2 of Kokoda, as the politics and personalities behind the campaign take centre stage. Meet the generals, Blamey, Rowell, Herring, Allen, Vasey and Potts, follow the Pacific collapsing from Pearl Harbor to the fall of Singapore, and watch Douglas MacArthur arrive in Australia as decisions made far from the jungle set up the fight for Papua.

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