Australia and Appeasement
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Examines Australia's role in Britain's policy of appeasement from the time Hitler came to power in 1933 through to the declaration of war in September 1939. Focusing on the five leading figures in the Australian governments of the 1930s - Joe Lyons, Stanley Bruce, Robert Menzies, Billy Hughes and Richard Casey - Waters examines their responses to the rise of Hitler and the growing threat of fascism in Europe. Australian governments accepted the principle that the Empire must speak with one voice on foreign policy and were therefore intimately involved in the decisions taken by successive governments in London.
War and peace Australia 1939-45
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Australia's War, 1939-45
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A lively one-volume survey of the Second World War's military, social, political and economic impact on Australia.
Australia under attack: the bombing of Darwin 1942
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Darwin was bombed in broad daylight by members of the Japanese Carrier Task Force which had been engaged at Pearl Harbour two months earlier. Not a single operational R.A.A.F fighter aircraft was available to meet this attack, imminent and inevitable though it was.
At the time of the raid, Douglas Lockwood was a correspondent for the Melbourne Herald in Darwin. In the years that followed, he travelled the world interviewing survivors of and participants in the attack to produce the first complete reconstruction of that tragic day.
Australia's War, 1939-45
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A lively one-volume survey of the Second World War's military, social, political and economic impact on Australia.
Nazi War Criminals
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Explores the lives of six Nazi war criminals and the roles they played in implementing the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
