Australia - Softcover

Knightley, Phillip; Crawford, R M

 
9780099772910: Australia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099772914 ISBN 13: 9780099772910
Verlag: Vintage, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the eyes of ordinary people, Phillip Knightley describes Australia's journey, from federation and the trauma of the First World War, the desperate poverty of the Depression, with its attendant spectres of secret armies and near-civil war, the threat of invasion in the Second World War and the immigration that followed it, and the slow but steady decline in the relationship with Britain, the 'Mother Country', as Australia forged its own unique identity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Phillip Knightley is the author of ten non-fiction books. He is best known for The Second Oldest Profession and The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker. He has met nearly every spy chief on both sides in the spy Cold War and spent one week with the British traitor Kim Philby in Moscow in 1988 debriefing him just before he died. For twenty years he was a special correspondent of The Sunday Times and a member of the Insight Team. He is now representative in Europe for the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and spends most of him time writing books and articles for publications around the world.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099772914
ISBN 13 
9780099772910
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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