Description |
340 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
1. Guns for Milne Bay -- 2. To Timor and back -- 3. Around the wharves -- 4. Further around the wharves -- 5. The Berry diaries -- 6. The RAAF at Darwin -- 7. Every cruiser targeted -- 8. Ship repairs -- 9. To the islands -- 10. Coal fields -- 11. Labours of defence -- 12. War drums -- 13. The band begins to play -- 14. If we fight like hell -- 15. Killing John Curtin -- 16. The reckoning -- 17. Kulturkampf and memory hole -- 18. Further revisions -- 19. The other side -- 20. The reason why |
Summary |
This book tells the shocking, true, but until now largely suppressed and hidden story of the war waged from 1939 to 1945 by a number of key Australian trade unions against their own society and against the men and women of their own country's fighting forces at the time of its gravest peril |
Analysis |
Anecdotes |
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Armed forces |
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Australian |
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Australian Defence Force |
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Curtin, John |
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Former Members |
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History |
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Industrial disputes |
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Interviews |
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Japan |
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Menzies, Robert |
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Political conditions |
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Prisoners of war |
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Trade unions |
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United States |
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World War 2 |
Notes |
"How unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II." - spine subtitle |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [319]-335) and index |
Notes |
Joint winner, Australian history, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2014 |
Subject |
Labor unions -- Political activity -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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Sabotage -- Australia.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004658 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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ISBN |
0980677874 |
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9780980677874 (hardback) |
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