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Author Colebatch, Hal, 1945- author

Title Australia's secret war / Hal G.P. Colebatch
Published Balmain, N.S.W. : Quadrant Books, 2013
Sydney : Quadrant Books, 2013
©2013

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 MELB  940.5394 Col/Asw  AVAILABLE
Description 340 pages ; 23 cm
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
Armed forces
Australian
Australian Defence Force
Curtin, John
Former Members
History
Industrial disputes
Interviews
Japan
Menzies, Robert
Political conditions
Prisoners of war
Trade unions
United States
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.
Sabotage -- Australia.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004658 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
ISBN 0980677874
9780980677874 (hardback)
Other Titles Australia's secret war : how unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II