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Australians, Volume 3: Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally

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March 2015, no. 369

Australians, Volume 3: Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally

Allen & Unwin, $49.99 hb, 675 pp

Australians, Volume 3: Flappers to Vietnam by Thomas Keneally

by
March 2015, no. 369

The European settlement of Australia, the colony’s earliest years, its expansion into, and alienation of, lands inhabited for millennia by the first Australians: these are the great and abiding themes of the Australian story. Together with the rather overdone nationalist narratives of war rekindled each and every Anzac Day, they are the focal points of popular historical memory. As a result, most Australians know a little about the First Fleet, the continent’s charting and exploration, the tragedy of first contact, and the heroic lost cause of Gallipoli.

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