Australians: Volume 3: Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally
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Australians: Volume 3: Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781925267280
Author: Thomas Keneally
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 640 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip on inside page. Wear to book edges and corners, particularly tail cover edge now protected with book tape. Marks on foredges. Binding is still very good. See images for more information.

As in the two previous volumes of Australians, Thomas Keneally brings history to vivid and pulsating life. He traces the lives and the deeds of Australians known and unknown as the nation emerged from World War I into a decade of profound change through the Great Crash, the rise of Fascism and the growth of the Communist Party.

He explains how Australia was inexorably drawn into a war that led her forces into combat throughout Asia, Africa, Europe and the Pacific. At home, an atmosphere of fear grew with the fall of Singapore and the bombing of Darwin, the Japanese advance and then the arrival of General MacArthur.

The 1950s, depicted by some as an age of full employment, by others as the age of suburban spread and boredom under the serene prime ministership of Robert Menzies, were as complicated as Menzies himself.

Most Australians believed there would be a nuclear war before the end of the decade. The Korean War and British testing of the atomic bomb in South Australia were seen as preludes. With the defection of the Soviet spy Ivan Petrov, Australians were convinced they were living in the last of days.

On the street, the face of Australia was undergoing an Italian, Greek and Slavic-led change. And in even greater upheaval, Asian trade and immigration were coming our way as we advanced towards war in Vietnam and the firming of the American alliance.

The result of masterly writing and exhaustive research, this volume of Australians brings our more recent history to vibrant and robust life. (back cover)

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