Save Our Sons - (Australian History) by Carolyn Collins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War. In 1965, angered by the Menzies' government's decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewives issued a national 'distress call - SOS - to mothers everywhere'. Their clarion call was answered by women across Australia, who formed groups of their own in Townsville, Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Of varying ages, backgrounds and religious and political persuasions, they united under the Save Our Sons banner, determined to end the so-called 'lottery of death'. In 1965, nobody envisaged this would take eight long years, or that some would be jailed in the process. Set against a backdrop of percolating social change in Australia, Save Our Sons is the first national history of the SOS movement and those who answered its call.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Dr Carolyn Collins is an historian at the University of Adelaide. A former journalist, magazine columnist and communications manager, she is co-author (with Roy Eccleston) of Trailblazers: 100 Inspirational South Australian Women (Wakefield Press, 2019) and co-editor (with Paul Sendziuk) of Foundational Fictions in South Australian History (Wakefield Press, 2018).
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