Cover; Praise for Australians Volumes 1 and 2; Half title; Title; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: War's after-shadows; Chapter 2: The Great Crash and Fascism's rise; Chapter 3: Aggression everywhere; Chapter 4: In classic lands; Chapter 5: Japan ascendant; Chapter 6: The prophet and the heroes, the politicians and prisoners; Chapter 7: In the balance; Chapter 8: Peace and its discontents; Chapter 9: Welcome to the 1950s; Chapter 10: The atomic years; Chapter 11: A million immigrants and the advance towards Vietnam; Notes; Index
Summary
In the third volume of Thomas Keneally's unique history of Australia - where he shines a light on the lives and deeds of our countrymen and women, both known and unknown - he takes up the story at the end of the Great War and explores our development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century