num_pages: 992
description: Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed three volume history of the Australian people from origins to Vietnam gave us a robust vibrant and page-turning narrative that brought to life the vast range of characters who have formed the Australian national story. Here these volumes are brought together for a story that encompasses original Australians and European occupation of their land the convict era pastoralists bushrangers and gold seekers working men pioneering women the rifts wrought by World War I the rise of hard-nosed radicals from the Left and the Right and the social upheavals of the Great Crash and World War II. Then the Menzies era the nation changing period of post-war migration and Australia's engagement with Asia. This is a truly masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.
language: English
title: Australians: A Short History
publisher: Allen & Unwin