Australians 3 Flappers To Vietnam Reprint Thomas Keneally by Thomas Keneally 9781742374536, 9781742698960, 1742374530, 1742698964 instant download after payment.

Australia emerged from World War I into a decade of profound change, characterised by a revolution in behaviour amongst the young; by the first great age of consumerism; & by secret right wing armies & the growth of the Communist Party. As in the two previous volumes of Australians, Thomas Keneally brings history to vivid & pulsating life as he traces the lives & the deeds of Australians known & unknown. He follows the famous & the infamous through the Great Crash & the rise of Fascism, & explains how Australia was inexorably drawn into a war that led her forces into combat throughout Asia, Africa, Europe & the Pacific. At home an atmosphere of fear grew with the fall of Singapore & the bombing of Darwin, the Japanese advance & 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 & boredom under the serene prime ministership of Robert Menzies-were as complicated as Menzies himself. Most Australians believed there would be nuclear war before the end of the decade. The Korean War & 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 & Slavic-led change. And in even greater upheaval, Asian trade & immigration were coming our way as we advanced towards a war in Vietnam & the firming of the American alliance. The result of masterly writing & exhaustive research, this volume of Australians brings our more recent history to vibrant & robust life.