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'The story of the 'Dunera Boys' is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these 2000 men suffered through British internment in camps at Hay, Tatura and Orange is well known. Less familiar is the tale of what happened to them afterwards. Following on from volume one Dunera Lives: A Visual History (2018), Dunera Lives: Profiles continues the saga in life stories.
'This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second World War and survived to tell the tale. Here are some of their stories.
'A contribution to the history of Australia, to the history of migrants and migration, and to the history of human rights, these two volumes put in the public domain a story whose full dimensions and complexity have never been described.' (Publication summary)
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Ken Inglis, Bill Gammage, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter, Dunera Lives : Profiles
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , December vol. 107 no. 2 2021; (p. 249-250)
— Review of Dunera Lives : Profiles 2020 single work biography -
A Story of the Twentieth Century
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , September 2020;
— Review of Dunera Lives : Profiles 2020 single work biography 'The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way' -
Ken Inglis and the Dunera : A Seventy-year History
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2016;'Among the speakers at last month’s conference at Monash University on the work of historian Ken Inglis was Seumas Spark, who is working with Ken and the American historian Jay Winter on a two-volume book about the Dunera boys' (Introduction)
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Ken Inglis, Bill Gammage, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter, Dunera Lives : Profiles
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , December vol. 107 no. 2 2021; (p. 249-250)
— Review of Dunera Lives : Profiles 2020 single work biography -
A Story of the Twentieth Century
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , September 2020;
— Review of Dunera Lives : Profiles 2020 single work biography 'The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way' -
Ken Inglis and the Dunera : A Seventy-year History
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: Inside Story , December 2016;'Among the speakers at last month’s conference at Monash University on the work of historian Ken Inglis was Seumas Spark, who is working with Ken and the American historian Jay Winter on a two-volume book about the Dunera boys' (Introduction)