Congratulations to author Helen Chapman on the publication of
Deadly Waters
a paperback young adult fiction for 9-14 year olds published by Omnibus Books
01 May 2023
As a promising cricketer, teenager, Cliff dreams that one day he will play cricket for Australia. But when war comes he leaves everything he knows behind and faces horrors from submarine attacks to suicide attacks by kamikaze pilots.
A little known part of Australia's WW2 is that German ships laid mines off the coast of Australia to destroy Allied ships leaving for battle. U-boats and Japanese subs also attacked ships off the east coast.
Sobering to realise how close WW2 came to Australia.