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Autor von 1956: the year Australia welcomed the world
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Nick Richardson peels back the layers to reveal Australia at a critical moment in time. He brilliantly recreates the broader events surrounding the Melbourne Olympics at the end of 1956, as well as the dramas of the Games themselves. Throughout, he also follows a range of men and women who were mehr anzeigen touched by this transformation, to illuminate the personal consequences of being part of Australia's pivotal year. weniger anzeigen
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During the first World War, in 1916, two teams of Australian soldiers played an Australian Rules football match in London. It was the first time the Australian game of football had been played outside of Australia. In this book the author explores the origin of this match, its symbolism and its role as a military recruiting exercise.
Reviewed in: History News: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Issue no.333, November 2017, p.14.
Reviewed in: History News: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Issue no.333, November 2017, p.14.
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The Game of their lives covers this match but spends much more time covering the lives (and deaths) of some of the key players in this match, such as South Melbourne’s Bruce Sloss, Norwood’s Charles Perry and Carl Willis of University and South Melbourne fame, and the War itself, specifically Gallipoli and the Western Front.
It seems that the identities of all the players that participated in the Pioneer Exhibition Game will remain forever unknown but The Game of their lives is a fine epitaph for them.… (mehr)