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Author Gregory, Jenny (Jennifer Anne)

Title On the homefront : Western Australia and World War II / edited by Jenny Gregory
Published Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1996

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Description xiv, 364 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Contents Preface / Jenny Gregory -- Introduction: Western Australia in the Commonwealth 1939-1945 / Penelope Hetherington -- Responding to War -- Pemberton Goes to War / Gay Eivers -- The Suburbs at War / Cathie May -- The Day It All Ended / T.A.G. Hungerford -- The Men Who Stayed Behind / Lindsay J. Peet -- Women Colouring the Wartime Landscape / Sara Buttsworth -- Harvest / John K. Ewers -- Shunted Back to the Kitchen? Women's Responses to War Work and Demobilization / Gail Reekie -- Skeet Builds a Shelter / John K. Ewers -- Families and Children in Wartime Western Australia / Penelope Hetherington -- Theatres of Conflict -- War on the Doorstep / Mike McCarthy -- Yanks in Western Australia: The Impact of United States Servicemen / Anthony J. Barker -- Just Like the Pictures / John K. Ewers -- The Impact of War on the Aborigines of the Kimberley / Christine Choo -- They Came in the Morning: Broome, March 1942 / 'Xav' -- There Was Another Weapon: The Churches on the Homefront / Katharine Massam, John H. Smith -- Mobilizing the Population -- A Lesson in Efficiency: Transport, Communications and the Community / Leigh Edmonds -- Spooks, Spies and Subversives! The Wartime Security Service / Bobbie Oliver, W.S. Latter -- Papers, People and Propaganda / Ron Davidson -- Internment / Michal Bosworth -- The War for Health / Sue Graham-Taylor -- Eating for the Nation: Food and Nutrition on the Homefront / Michal Bosworth -- The Aftermath -- Peace Returns: Western Australia in the Early Postwar Years / Kerry Evans
Analysis Western Australia History
World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects Australia Western Australia
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-358) and index
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Western Australia.
SUBJECT Western Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117437 -- 1939-1945
Western Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117437
Author Gregory, Jenny (Jennifer Anne)
LC no. 97194467
ISBN 1875560904
1875560955