BORN IN 1944?....Birthday Book....Australian Social History...Oz Year-Book 1944

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BORN IN 1944?   WHAT ELSE HAPPENED?

This is the seventh of 36 books in a series that covers Australian social history, in the 36 years from 1939 to 1974.  Each year-book in the series tells about the large number of newsworthy events that happened in that year.  

 

To get the material for the books, the writer, Ron Williams, worked his way through newspapers, magazines, books, and other sources, day by day until he came up with most of the major events and ideas, and trivia, of those years.  He presents them in a thoroughly readable book, with a mixture of humour and gravitas.

 

All books are pitched at “oldies” who are not as young as they were.   When people get a bit older, they become more reflective on their lives, and they place more value on their partners, and families, and friends from yesteryear. And about this time, nostalgia edges into their lives, and they start to look back at their teens, and dwell on their early years and childhood, and inevitably, their parents. 

When their birthdays come round, especially for the BIG-O anniversary years, they celebrate it with family, friends and neighbours.  It is a time for reminiscence and memories, and the "good old days" get many a mention.  But when it gets back to their year of birth, the year it all started for them, they can't remember a thing. 

 

IN FACT, MOST PEOPLE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEIR YEAR OF BIRTH.

 

This 182-page book aims to fix that a little by picking out the best stories of the year.   In 1946, the War was over, but not rationing.   Some products were rationed until 1950. Lord Haw Haw was executed, the Brits were starving, war brides were pouring out of Britain as fast as we could bring them here. TB was on the increase, and a long-term polio epidemic was just starting. Our nurses were underpaid and overworked, of course. War-crimes trials were catching up with villains in Europe and here. As a result, we found out about Sandakan where only six men out of 1,650 Aussie POW’s survived Japanese brutality. Pit whistles reduced some of us to tears, while the Aussie author of We Were the Rats was fined 10 quid.

Overall, the emphasis is on Oz social issues.  This is not just confined to the oldies who lived through those years, but it extends to the younger generations who wonder at the amazing pace of life, and the enormity of unfolding events, and the depth of heroism and courage almost beyond belief.

 

Both series are printed on quality paper with a quality cover, and Perfect Bound for durability.  They are printed in black-and-white, and in the style of the newspapers of those earlier days.

 

They are ideal gifts for oldies’ birthdays.  Nostalgics will love them. People will actually read them, and then pass them it on.  

 

TO BUY MORE BOOKS IN THIS SERIES, 

     GO TO MY STORE (at the top right of this page).     

 

THE AUTHOR:  Ron Williams is a retired teacher, mathematician,   computer-man, political scientist, farmer and writer.  He has a BA from Sydney, and a Masters in Social Work and a PhD in Political Science from Hawaii.

 

 

ABOUT THIS SERIES   …  But after that, I realized that I really knew very little about these parents  of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980.  For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.

I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. I could have found out about the times they lived in.  But I did not.  I know almost nothing about them really. Their courtship? Working in the pits? The Lock-out in the Depression? Losing their second child? Being dusted as a miner? The shootings at Rothbury? My uncles killed in the War? Love on the dole? There were hundreds, thousands of questions that I would now like to ask them.  But, alas, I can’t. It’s too late.

 

Thus, prompted by my guilt, I resolved to write these books. They describe happenings that affected people, real people.  The whole series is, to coin a modern phrase, designed to push your buttons, to make you remember and wonder at things forgotten. The books might just let nostalgia see the light of day, so that oldies and youngies will talk about the past and re-discover a heritage otherwise forgotten.  Hopefully, they will spark discussions between generations, and foster the asking and answering of questions that should not remain unanswered.

 

  • Condition: Brand new
  • Personalised: No
  • Book Title: Born in 1944? What else happened?
  • Book Series: Born in 19XX? What else happened?
  • Original Language: English
  • Item Length: 15 cm
  • Title/Series: Born in 19xx? What Else Happened?
  • Vintage: No
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Item Height: 21 cm
  • Topic: Australian History
  • Item Width: 1 cm
  • Signed: No
  • Ex Libris: No
  • Narrative Type: Non-Fiction
  • Publisher: BOOM BOOKS
  • Intended Audience: Adults
  • Inscribed: No
  • Subject: History
  • Edition: 5th Edition
  • Publication Year: 2013
  • Type: non Fiction
  • Era: 1940s
  • Illustrator: Jenny Williams
  • Author: Ron Williams
  • Genre: History
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia
  • Item Weight: 250 g
  • Number of Pages: 182
  • UPC: 9781502486608

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