Suffering, Redemption and Triumph
The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
$28.04
- Paperback
230 pages
- Release Date
5 July 2023
Summary
Between 1946 and 1966 large numbers of displaced persons (DPs) came to Australia to escape the horrors of war-torn Europe.
Peter Brune’s latest work had its genesis in more than 40 interviews he conducted with DPs in the period 2001—2022. He spoke to migrants from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Hungary.
Inspired by their resilience, their enterprise and their determination to m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922896476 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922896470 |
| Author: | Peter Brune |
| Publisher: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Imprint: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 230 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 368mm x 154mm |
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About The Author
Peter Brune
Peter Brune is one of Australia’s leading military historians. He is author of the bestselling and highly acclaimed A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua, as well as Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942, The Spell Broken: Exploding the Myth of Japanese Invincibility and We Band of Brothers: A Biography of Ralph Honner, Soldier and Statesman and is co-author with Neil McDonald of 200 Shots: Damien Parer and George Silk and The Australians at War in New Guinea. He lives in Adelaide.
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