L.F. Fitzhardinge, The Little Digger 1914–52: A political biography, William Morris Hughes, Volume II (Sydney 1979)
Mungo McCallum, The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers (Melbourne 2012)
The Aboriginal fight
Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians
Richard Broome, Aboriginal Victorians: A history since 1800 (Sydney 2005)
Henry Reynolds, Dispossession: Black Australians and White invaders (Sydney 1989)
John Maynard, ‘Fred Maynard and the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association’, Archive, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, online
As a result
Paul Hasluck, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Civil, Volume 1: The
Government and the People, 1939–41 (Canberra 1952)
Graham Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia (Sydney 2008)
Cameron Hazlehurst, Menzies Observed (Sydney 1979)
Martin, Robert Menzies
David Day, The Politics of War: Australia at war 1939–45, from Churchill to Macarthur (Sydney 2003)
Michael McKernan, The Strength of a Nation (Sydney 2008)
Joanna Penglase and David Horner, When the War Came to Australia (Sydney 1992)
Paul Hasluck, Sir Robert Menzies (Melbourne 1980)
Girding loins
Joan Beaumont, ‘Australia’s war: Europe and the Middle East’, in Joan
Beaumont (ed.), Australia’s War, 1939–45 (Sydney 1996)
Nigel Starck, Proud Australian Boy (Melbourne 2011)
Penglase and Horner, When the War Came to Australia
Douglas Gillison Napier, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Air, Volume I: Royal Australian Air Force, 1939–42 (Canberra 1962)
John Herington, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Air, Volume III: Air War Against Germany and Italy, 1939–43 (Canberra 1962)
D.M. Horner (ed.), The Commanders: Australian military leadership in the twentieth century (Sydney 1984)
Charles Robinson, Journey to Captivity (Canberra 1991)
Hal Colebatch, ‘Treachery: The Communist Party and the Labor Party’, National Observer, Summer 2004
CHAPTER 4 IN CLASSIC LANDS
Across Cyrenaica
Gavin Merrick Long, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Army, Volume I: To Benghazi (Sydney 1961)
Frank Legg, The Eyes of Damien Parer (Adelaide, 1963)
John Hetherington, Blamey, Controversial soldier: A biography of Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey (Canberra 1973)
D.M. Horner, ‘Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief,
Australian Military Forces’ in Horner, The Commanders
D.M. Horner, High Command: Australia’s struggle for an independent war strategy (Sydney 1982)
Julie Padanyi Rine, ‘Loyalty and courage at Bardia’, Wartime, issue 13, posted online 2011
David Horner, ‘Strategy and Command in Australia’s Campaigns of 1941’, Remembering 1941, AWM Conference 2001.
A poet to the front
Clement Semmler (ed.), The War Diaries of Kenneth Slessor, Official Australian
Correspondent, 1940–44 (Brisbane 1985)
James McAuley, A Map of Australian Verse: The twentieth century (Melbourne 1975)
David Walker, ‘The writers’ war’, in Beaumont (ed.), Australia’s War 1939–45
Kenneth Slessor, One Hundred Poems, 1919–39 (Sydney 1944)
Kenneth Slessor, Beach Burial (Sydney 1944)
To classic lands
Gavin Merrick Long, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Army, Volume II: Greece,
Crete and Syria (Canberra 1953)
Hetherington, Blamey
David Horner, ‘The Greek campaign, February to April 1941’, in Horner, High Command
Barney Roberts, A Kind of Cattle (Sydney 1985)
Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia
Semmler, The War Diaries of Kenneth Slessor
Day, The Politics of War
McKernan, The Strength of a Nation
War Diary of the 19th Infantry Brigade, April 1941, AWM 52, Item No. 8/2/9
Escapes, various
Long, Greece, Crete and Syria
Alan J. Levine, Captivity, Flight and Survival in World War II (Westport, Connecticut, 2000)
‘Reg Saunders’ in David Ramsland and Christopher Mooney, Remembering Aboriginal Heroes: Struggle, identity and the media (Melbourne 2006)
The Cretan farce
Long, Greece, Crete and Syria
Horner, High Command
Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia
Hetherington, Blamey
Martin, Robert Menzies
Day, The Politics of War
Barney Roberts, A Kind of Cattle (Sydney 1985)
Semmler, The War Diaries of Kenneth Slessor
War Diary of the 8th Infantry Battalion AIF, AWM 52-8-3 8
Bob’s big ambitions
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1939–41
Martin, Robert Menzies
Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia
Day, The Politics of War
Horner, High Command
Cyrenaica rats
Barton Maughan, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Army, Volume III: Tobruk and El Alamein (Canberra 1966)
Hetherington, Blamey
A.J. Hill, ‘Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Morshead: Commander, 9th Australian Division’ in Horner, The Commanders
War Diary of 2/17 Infantry Brigade, AWM 52/8/3/17
Curtin rising
Day, Curtin
Ross, John Curtin
Dowsing, Curtin of Australia
Fred Alexander, From Curtin to Menzies and After: Continuity or confrontation? (Melbourne 1973)
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1939–41
NAA, David Black and Lesley Wallace, A Guide to the Archives of Australian Prime Ministers: John Curtin
CHAPTER 5 JAPAN ASCENDANT
The prophet of Japan–Australia
Prue Torney-Parlicki, ‘Selling goodwill: Peter Russo and the promotion of Australia–Japan relations, 1935–41’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, volume 37, issue 3, September 2001
Muirden, The Puzzled Patriots
Jumpy about invasion
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1939–41
Paul Hasluck, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Civil, Volume II: The
Government and the People, 1942–45 (Canberra 1970)
Penglase and Horner, When the War Came to Australia
Day, Curtin
Day, The Politics of War
Ross, John Curtin
McKernan, The Strength of a Nation
Kylie Tennant, Evatt, Politics and Justice (Sydney 1972)
Fifth column
Broome, Aboriginal Australians
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
Robert Hall, The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the
Second World War (Sydney 1989)
Lionel Gage Wigmore, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Army, Volume IV: The Japanese Thrust (Sydney 1957)
Day, Curtin
Day, The Politics of War
William Manchester, American Caesar (London 1978)
The Malay barrier
Gillison, Royal Australian Air Force, 1939–42
Wigmore, The Japanese Thrust
NAA, A7711: History of the Directorate of Prisoners of War and Internees 1939–1951, volumes 1 and 2
NAA, A10952, A Report of War Crimes by Individual Members of the Armed Forces Against Australians
NAA A10952 Files of the Commission
Peter Stanley, ‘The Defence of the “Malay Barrier”, Rabaul and Ambon, January 1942’, Remembering 1942, AWM Conference, 2002
What is to be done?
Dudley McCarthy, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Army, Volume IV: SouthWest Pacific Area, The First Year, Kokoda to Wau (Sydney 1959)
Day, Curtin
Day, The Politics of War
Gabrielle Chan (ed.), War on Our Doorstep: Diaries of Australians at the frontline in 1942 (Melbourne 2004)
Fighting the tiger
Wigmore, The Japanese Thrust
Gillison, Royal Australian Air Force 1939–42
Horner, High Command
Russell Braddon, The Naked Island (London 1951)
Phillippa Poole, Of Love and War: The letters and diaries of Captain Adrian
Curlewis and his family 1939–45 (London, n.d.)
A.B. Lodge, ‘Lieutenant Henry Gordon Bennett: A model major-general’ in
Horner The Commanders
Day, Curtin
Day, The Politics of War
Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia
Ross, John Curtin
Chan, War on our Doorstep
NAA, Letters and cables Vivian Bowden and others, 6/n, volumes 5 and 6
NAA, A3196, O.2040 Curtin to Churchill, Jan 23 1942, AA:A981, WAR33, Attachment B
NAA, Shenton Thomas to Curtin, 23 January 1942, A3195,1942,1.2898
NAA, Evatt to Casey, A981, WAR33, Attachment B at www.info.dfat.gov.au/info/histoical/HistDocs.nsf; Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 8 and Dec 27 1941
The fortress falls
Gordon Bennett, Why Singapore Fell (Sydney 1944)
Rohan Rivett, Behind Bamboo (Sydney 1946)
NAA, various communications, including British government cables and communications, volume 6/n; NAA:A3196, O.2040 at www.info.dfat.gov.au/info/historical/HistDocs.nsf
Days of brains and brawn
McCarthy, South-West Pacific Area, The First Year, Kokoda to Wau
Gillison, Royal Australian Air Force 1939–42
Hasluck, The Government and the People
McKiernan, The Strength of a Nation
Chan, War On Our Doorstep
Day, Curtin
Day, The Politics of War
Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia
Tennant, Evatt, Politics and Justice
Joan Beaumont, ‘Australia’s war: Asia and the Pacific’ in Beaumont (ed.), Australia’s War, 1939–45
Dorian-Smith, ‘War and Australian Society’ in Beaumont (ed.), Australia’s War, 1939–45
Muirden, The Puzzled Patriots
Georgina Fitzgerald, ‘Inky Stephensen internment experience in Australia: letters to his wife, 194245’, Eras, edition 9, November 2007
Bombing northern Australia
McCarthy, South-West Pacific Area, The First Year, Kokoda to Wau
Gillison, Royal Australian Air Force 1939–42
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
Penglase and Horner, When the War Came to Australia
Peter Grose, An Awkward Truth (Sydney 2009)
Peter Stanley, ‘The Bombing of Darwin, 19th February, 1942’, speech at AWM, February 2002
Drew Cottle, ‘The Brisbane Line: an episode in capital history’, JAS, volume 25, issue 69, 2001
NAA, Japanese Bombing Raid on Darwin, A 2684, 872
The Japan–Australia society
Walker, Anxious Nation
Day, Curtin
Muirden, The Puzzled Patriots
Torney-Parlicki, Selling Goodwill
Martin, Menzies
Drew Cottle, The Brisbane Line, a Reappraisal (Sydney 2002)
Cottle, ‘The Brisbane Line’
In the wake of bombs
McCarthy, South-West Pacific Area, The First Year, Kokoda to Wau
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
Grose, An Awkward Truth
Day, Curtin
Tennant, Evatt, Politics and Justice
Kate Dorian-Smith, ‘War and Australian society’, in Beaumont (ed.) Australia’s War, 1939–45
Chan, War on Our Doorstep
CHAPTER 6 THE PROPHETS AND THE HEROES
The apparition
Jack Gallaway, The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at war (Brisbane 2000)
Manchester, American Caesar
Horner, High Command
Hetherington, Blamey
Day, Curtin
Parer again
Legg, The Eyes of Damien Parer
Osmar White, Green Armour (Sydney 1945)
Paul Ham, Kokoda (Sydney 2004)
Phillip Bradley, Hell’s Battlefield (Sydney 2012)
Manpower, prisoner power
Kay Saunders, ‘Down on the farm: Italian POWs in Australia, 1941–47’, JAS, volume 19, issue 46, 1995
David Lee, ‘Politics and government’ in Beaumont, Australia’s War, 1939–45
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
Dorian-Smith, ‘War and Australian society’ in Beaumont, Australia’s War, 1939–45
NAA, Administration of Italian POWs in Cowra and on farms, A/1066, SP1714/1; A5954, SP 1048/7
Carol Fort, ‘Regulating the labour market in Australia’s wartime democracy’, Australian Historical Studies, 122, 2004
Women power
Patsy Adam-Smith, Australia Women and War (Melbourne 1984)
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1939–41
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
Penglase and Horner, When The War Came to Australia
Kate Darian Smith, ‘War and Australian society’ in Jean Beaumont (ed.), Australia’s War 1939–45
AWM website under names of individual women’s services
The imprisoned
E.E. Dunlop, The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop (Melbourne 1990)
Poole, Of Love and War
Horner, ‘Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief, Australian
Military Forces’
Hetherington, Blamey
Wayne Errington and Narelle Miragliotta, ‘From the gallery to the parliament: journalists in the House of Representatives and Senate 1901–2007’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, volume 55, issue 4, 2009
Bring them home
All Curtin biographies
Day, The Politics of War
Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
Lorna Froude, ‘Petrol rationing during World War II’, Journal of the AWM, online
NAA, A Guide to the Archives of Australian Prime Ministers: John Curtin
Austerity
S.J. Butlin and C.B. Schedvin, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Civil, Volume IV:
War Economy 1942–45 (Canberra 1970)
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1939–41
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
Penglase and Horner, When The War Came to Australia
Kate Darian Smith, ‘War and Australian Society’ in Beaumont, Australia’s War 1939–45
Day, Curtin
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1301.0 Year Book Australia, 1944–45 at www.abs.gov.au
The people and policy, 1942
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
Sydney J.C.L. Butlin, Australia in the War of 1939–45, Civil, Volume II: War Economy 1942–45 (Sydney 1977)
Judith Brett, Menzies’ Forgotten People (Sydney 1992)
Crisp, The Australian Federal Labour Party
L.F. Crisp, Ben Chifley: A political biography (Sydney 1961)
David Day, Chifley (Sydney 2001)
Foreign parts
Hasluck, The Government and the People, 1942–45
J.M. Main, Conscription: The Australian debate 1901–70 (Sydney 1970)
Day, Curtin
Ross, John Curtin
Crisp, The Australian Federal Labour Party
NAA, A Guide to the Archives of Australian Prime Ministers: John Curtin
Conscription documents, including The Shedden Collection, A 5954, 1630/6, Amendment of the Defence Act to Enable Militia to be Used, etc.
Second- and third-phase peril
Peter Dornan, The Silent Men: Syria to Kokoda and on to Gona (S
ydney 1999)
Galloway, The Odd Couple
David Horner, ‘Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Rowell: dismissal of a corps commander’ in Horner, The Commanders
Via Dolorosa
Waiko, A Short History Of Papua New Guinea
Horner, High Command
Ham, Kokoda
Bradley, Hell’s Battlefield
McCarthy, South-West Pacific Area, The First Year, Kokoda to Wau
Dornan, The Silent Men
Gallaway, The Odd Couple
Michael O’Connor, ‘Kokoda: the lessons remain valid’, ADF Journal, number 98, January/February 1993
White, Green Armour
Young blood, old politics
All as for previous two sections
Your doctor, my doctor
Rosalind Hearder, ‘Memory, methodology, and myth: some of the challenges of writing Australian prisoner of war history’, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, online, n.d.
Stan Arneil, One Man’s War (Melbourne 1980)
Dunlop, The War Diaries
Starck, Proud Australian Boy
K.J. Fagan, ‘Surgical experiences as a POW’, The Medical Journal of Australia, 1 June 1946
CHAPTER 7 IN THE BALANCE
The great desert battle
Peter Rees, Desert Boys: Australians at war from Beersheba to Tobruk and
El Alamein (Sydney 2011)
Maughan, Tobruk and El Alamein
Day, The Politics of War
A.J. Hill, ‘Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Morshead’ in Horner, The Commanders
Horner, High Command
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