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BORN in 1960? What Else Happened? by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
MORE INFORMATION ON THESE BOOKS Over the past 13 years the author, Ron Williams, has written this series of books that present a social history of Australia in the post-war period. They cover the period for 1939 to 1968, with one book for each year. Thus there are 30 books. To capture the material for ...Show more
Born In 1939? - What Else Happened9 by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
IN 1939. Hitler was the man to watch. He bullied Europe, he took over a few countries, and bamboozled the Brits. By the end of the year, most of Europe ganged up on him, and a phony war had millions of men idling in trenches eating their Christmas turkeys. Back home in Oz, the drunkometer was breathless ...Show more
Born In 1941? - What Else Happened? by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
For the Series. I was born in 1934, so that I can remember well a great deal of what went on around me from 1939 onwards. But of course, the bulk of this book's material came from research. That meant that I spent many hours in front of a computer reading electronic versions of newspapers, magazines, Ha ...Show more
Born In 1961? - What Else Happened? by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
Over the past 17 years the author, Ron Williams, has written this series of books that present a social history of Australia in the post-war period. They cover the period for 1939 to 1970, with one book for each year. Thus there are 32 books. To capture the material for each book, he worked his way thr ...Show more
Born In 1968? - What Else Happened? by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense. I could have talked to them a lo ...Show more
Born In 1969? - What Else Happened? by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense. I could have talked to them a lot a ...Show more
Born In 1972? - What Else Happened? by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
1972. It was "Time" for a change in Federal Government as Whitlam brought Labor back from the dead, and in our relations with China. Number 96 won the TV credits, women got equal pay for equal work, and call-up of Nashos ended. Israelis were killed at the Munich Olympic Games. Plan hijackers were now be ...Show more
Born In 1973? What Else Happened? by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
This is the fourth of the 1970s and the 35th book overall to be released in a series of 35 about life in Australia, one for each year from 1939 to 1973. They describe happenings that affected people, real people. The whole series, to coin a modern phrase, is designed to push your buttons, to make you re ...Show more
Born in 1940?: What else happened? by Ron Williams
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Category: Australiana
Based largely on major daily newspapers, highlights main events and typical stories, such as the fall of Paris, Dunkirk, the Blitz, rationing and conscription at home, and internment of refugees.
Born in 1942? What Else Happened? by Williams, Ron
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense. I could have talked to them a lot a ...Show more