Author: SCATES, BOB. Title: "Draftmen Go Free" A History Of The Anti-Conscription Movement In Australia.
Description: First Edition; Med. 4to; pp. 109; endnotes to each chapter, bibliography, bound in original illustrated stiff stapled wrapper, publishing details handwritten in pen on front endpaper, very good copy. Richmond; Bob Scates; May 1989. Scates was convicted of refusing to obey a call-up notice and was sentenced to eighteen months in goal in April 1972. The election of the Whitlam Labor Government resulted in him being released from Pentridge in December 1972. This book is a history of real heroism of conscription, it is important that Australians remember that period, and understand it.
Keywords: gea Australian anti-conscription military history Vietnam
Price: AUD 60.00 = appr. US$ 41.51 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 117882