| ISBN |
9780980677874 (hardback) : |
| Name |
Colebatch, Hal, 1945- author. |
| Title |
Australia's secret war Hal G.P. Colebatch. |
| Cover title |
Australia's secret war : how unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II |
| Published |
Balmain, N.S.W. : Quadrant Books, 2013 |
| Description |
340 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
"How unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II." - spine subtitle. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (page [319]-335) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subjects |
World War (1939-1945) |
| Labor unions -- Political activity |
| Sabotage |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia |
| Armed Forces |
| Labor unions -- Political activity -- Australia -- History -- 20th century |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia |
| Sabotage -- Australia |
| Australia |
| Australia -- Armed Forces -- History |
| Genre |
History |
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