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Christina Twomey, “The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia” (NewSouth Books, 2018)
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Christina Twomey, “The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia” (NewSouth Books, 2018)
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17 minutes
Released:
Mar 13, 2018
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In her new book, The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia (NewSouth Books, 2018), Christina Twomey, Professor of History at Monash University, explores the “battle within,” the individual and collective challenge of rehabilitating Australian prisoners of war in the post-war decades. Using a variety of sources, including memoirs and the archives of the Prisoners of War Trust Fund, Twomey argues that the commemorations of the 1980s and more recent decades were actually a change from the quiet decades of mid century, when the country struggled to address the needs of its returning servicemen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Mar 13, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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