Description
Title: The Australian People and the Great War
Author: McKernan, Michael
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0170057658
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 242 pages
Comments: A fascinating account of Australian society during World War One, with focus on churches, women, young people below conscription age and ethnic groups, such as German Australians, who were vilified as enemy aliens.
The author explores fracture lines in society such as differences between Catholic and Protestant, the hyper-patriotic and those with reservations about war, and the ways in which soldierly camaraderie carried through after the war to exclude women from roles other than submissive wife and mother.
