Keneally, Thomas.

Australians (volume 3) : Flappers to Vietnam. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (685 pages)

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.

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.

9781742698960


Prisoners-Australia-History.
Penal colonies-Australia-History.
Frontier and pioneer life-Australia.
Governors-Australia-New South Wales-History.
Australia-History-20th century.
Australia-History-To 1788.
Australia-History-1788-1900.


Electronic books.

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