Christina Twomey Christina Twomey i(A67739 works by) (a.k.a. CT)
Gender: Female
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Christina Twomey is professor of History in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University, where she was previously a senior lecturer in the field. She received her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and held positions at Deakin University and the University of Adelaide before her appointment to Monash University in 2003.

Her research focuses on the impact of major dislocations and traumatic events in Australian history, at both the individual level and in terms of the broader cultural response to them. In 2018, her most recent monograph was The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia.

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y separately published work icon The Battle Within : POWs In Postwar Australia New South Wales : NewSouth Publishing , 2018 14223567 2018 multi chapter work biography

'This landmark and compelling book follows the stories of 15,000 Australian prisoners of war from the moment they were released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Their struggle to rehabilitate themselves and to win compensation and acknowledgement from their own country was just beginning. This moving book shows that the battle within was both a personal and a national one.

'Prize-winning historian Christina Twomey finds that official policies and attitudes towards these men were equivocal and arbitrary for almost forty years. The image of a defeated and emaciated soldier held prisoner by people of a different race did not sit well with the mythology of Anzac. Drawing on the records of the Prisoner of War Trust Fund for the first time, this book presents the struggles of returned prisoners in their own words. It also shows that memories of captivity forged new connections with people of the Asia-Pacific region, as former POWs sought to reconcile with their captors and honour those who had helped them. A grateful nation ultimately lauded and commemorated POWs as worthy veterans from the 1980s, but the real story of the fight to get there has not been told until now.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards History Book Award
2018 winner New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize Australian History Prize
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