Table of Contents

Tables and figures

Maps

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Contributors

Chronology of the war

Introduction Joan Beaumont

1 Australia's war

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2 The politics of a divided society

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3 War and Australian society

Pam Maclean

4 The economy at war

Marnie Haig-Muir

5 Australia in the world

David Lowe

6 The Anzac legend

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Select bibliography

Index

About the Author

Joan Beaumont teaches in the School of Australian and International Studies at Deakin University. She is the author of Gull Force: Survival and Leadership in Captivity, 1941-45 and is a respected Australian historian of war and international history.