Australians.: (Flappers to Vietnam)

Keneally brings history to vivid and pulsating life as he traces the lives and the deeds of Australians known and unknown.

As another war grew closer he follows the famous and the infamous through the Great Crash and the rise of Fascism, and explains how Australia was inexorably drawn into a war which led her forces into combat throughout Asia, Africa, Europe and the Pacific.

At home an atmosphere of fear grew with the fall of Singapore and the bombing of Darwin, the Japanese advance and then the American Alliance and the arrival of General MacArthur Peace brought its own problems with the Depression that left one third of Australians unemployed.