His book australias secret war won the 2014 prime ministers literary award for history attracting. Colebatchs australias secret war offers a dubious version of the industrial history of australia in the second world war. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Hal gibson pateshall colebatch 7 october 1945 10 september 2019 was a west australian. Colebatchs australia s secret war offers a dubious version of the industrial history of australia in the second world war. This book tells the shocking, true, but until now largely suppressed and hidden story of the war waged from 1939 to 1945 by a number of key australian trade unions against their own society and against the men and women of their own countrys fighting forces at the time of its gravest peril.
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