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Author Gare, Deborah, author

Title When war came to Fremantle, 1899 to 1945 / Deborah Gare and Madison Lloyd-Jones
Published North Fremantle : Fremantle Press ;. Scoresby : Penguin Group Australia [Distributor]
Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2014
©2014

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Description 143 pages : illustrations, colour maps, portraits ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents Machine generated contents note: 01.Australia and Empire -- The War in South Africa, 1899 to 1902 -- Nurses in South Africa -- 02.Origins of Anzac -- The First World War, 1914 to 1918 -- War Wounded -- ̀A Hundred Thousand Welcomes' -- 03.Remembrance -- After the Inferno, 1918 to 1928 -- Monument Hill -- 04.Ideology -- An Armed Peace, 1928 to 1938 -- 05.Melancholy Duty -- Return to War, 1939 to 1941 -- HMAS Sydney -- 06.When War Came to Fremantle -- On the Home Front, 1942 to 1945 -- Women's Work -- The Friendly Invasion -- Hospitality -- 07.The Return -- Restoration and Repatriation, 1945 -- War Brides -- 08.War's End -- Australia, Fremantle and the enduring impact of war
Summary As Australia's largest wartime port, Fremantle played a unique role in the nation's story. Featuring extraordinary photographs, this volume is a fascinating account of our homefront during the Boer War, World War I, World War II and more. It records our history of departure and reunion, victory and celebration, grief and loss, and dissent and activism
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Adult
SUBJECT Fremantle (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94020879 -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165
Fremantle (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94020879 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Fremantle (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94020879 -- History, Military -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006110 -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272
Fremantle (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94020879 -- History, Military -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006110
Fremantle (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94020879 -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008860
Genre/Form Illustrated works.
Author Lloyd-Jones, Madison, author
LC no. 2014455681
ISBN 1925161293
9781925161298