In War & In Peace

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Patricia Clifton

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491_9780648467472

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This story is about the wartime experiencesthat touched the lives of just one Australian family.Firstly, we meet the extended family who played manyroles in the wartime experiences of the Clifton family.With the likelihood of war coming to Australia there wasa growing feeling of apprehension. The Japanese were moving fast andunrestrained throughout Asia and were close to invasion.Three chapters reveal how this affected the family: Dad’s War recreatesJack Clifton’s encounters with the war in the tropics as a RAAF electrician,Mum’s War introduces Joan Clifton, at home, looking after her two childrenand grappling with wartime shortages, Kid’s War recounts childhoodmemories of the war and its effect on the children.Finally, the Homecoming, that should have been jubilant but was marredby ill-health, intolerance and discomfort. In the last chapter, Peacetime,some accord was reached.

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