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Australians. Volume 3 : Flappers to Vietnam / Thomas Keneally.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keneally, Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Australia--History.
- Prisoners.
- Penal colonies--Australia--History.
- Penal colonies.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Governors--Australia--New South Wales--History.
- Governors.
- Australia--History--20th century.
- Australia.
- Australia--History--To 1788.
- Australia--History--1788-1900.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (685 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Allen & Unwin, [2014]
- Summary:
- In the third volume of Thomas Keneally's unique history of Australia - where he shines a light on the lives and deeds of our countrymen and women, both known and unknown - he takes up the story at the end of the Great War and explores our development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Praise for Australians Volumes 1 and 2
- Half title
- Title
- Imprint
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: War's after-shadows
- Chapter 2: The Great Crash and Fascism's rise
- Chapter 3: Aggression everywhere
- Chapter 4: In classic lands
- Chapter 5: Japan ascendant
- Chapter 6: The prophet and the heroes, the politicians and prisoners
- Chapter 7: In the balance
- Chapter 8: Peace and its discontents
- Chapter 9: Welcome to the 1950s
- Chapter 10: The atomic years
- Chapter 11: A million immigrants and the advance towards Vietnam
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-74269-896-4
- OCLC:
- 1039682335
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