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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
LIST OF MAPS
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS & MEASUREMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Prologue: ‘Rickshaws up George Street’
Introduction: ‘Did you fight the Japs?’
INVADING AUSTRALIA
PART I: ‘Should foreign foes e’er sight our coasts’: The idea of a Japanese invasion before 1942
1: ‘Australia will fall’ Invasion imagined
2: ‘Within the next three years …’ Invasion anticipated
3: ‘Gazelles grazing in a dell’ Invasion expected
PART II: ‘The nearness of our peril’: Australia and the threat of invasion, 1942
4: ‘We who are about to die …’ Invasion approaching
5: ‘With defeat as her second son’ Invasion imminent
6: ‘Great, tragic days’ Invasion feared
7: ‘To defend and hold Australia’ Invasion resisted
8: ‘Victory disease’ Invasion deferred
9: ‘They saved us from the Japs … Perhaps’ Invasion deterred
10: ‘Men who saved Australia’ Invasion defeated
PART III: ‘A historical fact which never existed’: Invasion in history and memory after 1942
11: ‘A rich and lurid folklore’ Invasion invented
12: ‘Battle for Australia’ Invasion interpreted
13: ‘Deep and lasting impression’ Invasion remembered
14: ‘Yes, but how did it affect us?’ Invasion irrelevant
Epilogue: Whale War II and the Chinese map The controversy continues
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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