Chester Wilmot was on board British Airways Flight 781 on 10 January 1954 when it exploded in midair and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the island of Elba. He was forty-two years old, a distinguished wartime broadcaster, a bestselling historian, a BBC regular, the military correspondent for the Observer and a pioneer of documentary television. He was at the peak of his powers, a success at ... (read more)
Peter Cochrane
Dr Peter Cochrane FAHA has written extensively about war. His books include the companion volume to the ABC series Australians at War, First World War: The Western Front 1916–1918 and Simpson and the Donkey: The making of a legend. He is also the author of the award-winning Colonial Ambition and the novella Governor Bligh and the Short Man.