Dunera Lives: Volume 1 A Visual History - First Edition - Second Printing

Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan

ISBN 10: 1925495493 / ISBN 13: 9781925495492

Published by Monash University Publishing, 2018

About this Item

In July 1940, around2,000 refugees, most of whom were Jewish and fromGermany or Austria, were sent from Britain to Australia on the HMT Dunera. The storyof the 'Dunera boys' is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and its aftermath. The injustices these men suffered in internment camps at Hay, Tatura, and Orange is well known. Less familiar is the tale of what happened to them afterwards. This book tell that story primarily through images. The images, beautiful and powerful, reveal tales of struggle, sadness, transcendence, and creativity, and describe the lives of these men and of the society in which they lived, first as prisoners and then as free men.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dunera Lives: Volume 1 A Visual History - First Edition - Second Printing
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925495493
• ISBN 13: 9781925495492
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

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. This book tells that story, in two volumes, one in images, and one in life stories. The images constitute a narrative all of their own. The beauty and power of these traces of the lives of these internees speak for themselves. Once familiar with the images in the first volume, the reader will be able to embrace more fully the profiles in volume two. These are stories of struggle, sadness, transcendence, and creativity that describe the lives of these men and of the society in which they lived, first as prisoners and then as free men. 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.

About the Author

Seumas Spark is an Adjunct Fellow in History at Monash University. He is a co-author of Dunera Lives: Profiles 

and Dunera Lives: A Visual History, and co-editor of ‘I Wonder’: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis and Shadowline: The Dunera Diaries of Uwe Radok.

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History emeritus at Yale University, Research Professor at Monash University and Visiting Professor at the Australian National University.