![]() This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. ![]() The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. Title: Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War & Reconstruction in the 1940s ![]()
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