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Author Nunn, Judy author.
Title Khaki town / Judy Nunn.
Published Australia :
William Heinemann,
2019.
Description 384 pages : map ; 24 cm.
General Note "It was a wartime story they didn't want told..."--Front cover.
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 ...'
Notes Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects Johnson, Lyndon B.(Lyndon Baines),1908-1973 -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Queensland -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Australia -- Fiction
Racism -- Fiction
Americans -- Australia -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Queensland -- Townsville Region -- Fiction
African Americans -- Segregation
Australian fiction
Segregation -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Queensland -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Race relations -- Fiction
Townsville (Qld.) -- Fiction
Queensland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Townsville (Qld.) -- Fiction
Genre War fiction
Historical fiction
Australian fiction
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