The Resource Khaki town, Judy Nunn
Khaki town, Judy Nunn
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The item Khaki town, Judy Nunn represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Khaki town, Judy Nunn represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- It seems to have happened overnight, Val thought . How extraordinary. We've become a khaki town. It's March 1942. Singapore has fallen. Darwin has been bombed. Australia is on the brink of being invaded by the Imperial Japanese Forces. And Val Callahan, publican of The Brown's Bar in Townsville, could not be happier as she contemplates the fortune she's making from lonely, thirsty soldiers. Overnight the small Queensland city is transformed into the transport hub for 70,000 American and Australian soldiers destined for combat in the South Pacific. Barbed wire and gun emplacements cover the beaches. Historic buildings are commandeered. And the dance halls are in full swing with jazz, jitterbug and jive. The Australian troops begrudge the confident, well-fed 'Yanks' who have taken over their town and their women. There's growing conflict, too, within the American ranks, because black GIs are enjoying the absence of segregation. And the white GIs don't like it. As racial violence explodes through the ranks of the military, a young United States Congressman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, is sent to Townsville by his president to investigate. 'Keep a goddamned lid on it, Lyndon,' he is told, 'lest it explode in our faces ...'
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 384 pages
- Note
- "It was a wartime story they didn't want told..."--Front cover
- Isbn
- 9780143795179
- Label
- Khaki town
- Title
- Khaki town
- Statement of responsibility
- Judy Nunn
- Subject
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- trueAfrican Americans -- Segregation
- trueAmericans in Australia
- trueAustralia
- trueAustralian
- Australian fiction
- Johnson, Lyndon B., (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Fiction
- trueQueensland
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism
- trueSoldiers
- Townsville (Qld.) -- Fiction
- trueWorld War II
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Queensland -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Queensland | Townsville Region -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueSegregation
- trueAfrican American soldiers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It seems to have happened overnight, Val thought . How extraordinary. We've become a khaki town. It's March 1942. Singapore has fallen. Darwin has been bombed. Australia is on the brink of being invaded by the Imperial Japanese Forces. And Val Callahan, publican of The Brown's Bar in Townsville, could not be happier as she contemplates the fortune she's making from lonely, thirsty soldiers. Overnight the small Queensland city is transformed into the transport hub for 70,000 American and Australian soldiers destined for combat in the South Pacific. Barbed wire and gun emplacements cover the beaches. Historic buildings are commandeered. And the dance halls are in full swing with jazz, jitterbug and jive. The Australian troops begrudge the confident, well-fed 'Yanks' who have taken over their town and their women. There's growing conflict, too, within the American ranks, because black GIs are enjoying the absence of segregation. And the white GIs don't like it. As racial violence explodes through the ranks of the military, a young United States Congressman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, is sent to Townsville by his president to investigate. 'Keep a goddamned lid on it, Lyndon,' he is told, 'lest it explode in our faces ...'
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- 10806512
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nunn, Judy
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- African Americans
- World War, 1939-1945
- Townsville (Qld.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Khaki town, Judy Nunn
- Note
- "It was a wartime story they didn't want told..."--Front cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- Content type code
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- sti
- cri
- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065437550
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 384 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143795179
- Lccn
- be2019035464
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1103218149
- Label
- Khaki town, Judy Nunn
- Note
- "It was a wartime story they didn't want told..."--Front cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- cri
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065437550
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 384 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143795179
- Lccn
- be2019035464
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1103218149
Subject
- trueAfrican Americans -- Segregation
- trueAmericans in Australia
- trueAustralia
- trueAustralian
- Australian fiction
- Johnson, Lyndon B., (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Fiction
- trueQueensland
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism
- trueSoldiers
- Townsville (Qld.) -- Fiction
- trueWorld War II
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Queensland -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Queensland | Townsville Region -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Race relations -- Fiction
- trueSegregation
- trueAfrican American soldiers
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Library Locations
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Lionel Bowen Library and Community CentreBorrow it669-673 Anzac Parade, Marouba, NSW, 2035, AU-33.938111 151.237977
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Malabar Community LibraryBorrow it1203 Anzac Parade, Matraville, NSW, 2036, AU-33.962293 151.245961
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Margaret Martin LibraryBorrow itLevel 1, Royal Randwick Shopping Centre, Randwick, NSW, 2031, AU-33.9151421 151.2408898
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