The Second World War was an entirely different proposition for Australia from the First World War. The disastrous toll of the 1914-1918 conflict, the shattering of the idealistic schemes for international order that followed it and the presence of a hostile and feared Asian empire close to the north meant that Australians regarded the declaration o...

Generation of Australian heroes : an illustrated history, 1939-1945.

First published in 2005.

Photographs chiefly drawn from the collection of the Australian War Memorial.

Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed 2015.

copyright2014.

9781742708645 (hardback)

940.53940222