What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy? : Personal Stories from a Troubled Time.

What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy? : Personal Stories from a Troubled Time.

The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through twelve evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curthoys, Ann
Other Authors: Damousi, Joy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sydney : NewSouth, 2014.
Subjects:
1945-1989
Cold War > Influence.
Cold War > Moral and ethical aspects > Australia.
Cold War > Anecdotes.
Manners and customs
War > Influence
War > Moral and ethical aspects
Australia > Social life and customs > Anecdotes.
Australia
Electronic books.
Anecdotes
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. Martin Krygier
  • An Intimate and Foreign Affair; 2. Valerie Cooms
  • The Workers United Will be Defeated!; 3. Lyndall Ryan
  • Caught out: Edna and Jack Ryan and the 1951 Referendum; 4. John Docker
  • Troubled Reflections on my Father; 5. Peter Manning
  • In the Middle of a Dream; 7. Rodney Cavalier
  • A war I did Not Know About That Influenced Me So Much; 8. Mark Aarons
  • Scenes from my Cold War; 9. Mary Elizabeth Calwell
  • How We Survived 'The Movement'; 10. Ron Witton
  • Growing up and Living with the Cold War; 11. George Zangalis
  • A Political Life.
  • 12. Sheila Fitzpatrick
  • The Cold War as Remembered by the Children of the Old LeftNotes; Acknowledgments; Index.

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