Australians at home: World War II. Michael McKernan. 2014.

This is the story of the men, women and children at home during the Second World War, and of their response to the extraordinary demands made on them by the circumstances of war. It evokes wartime Australia - the good and the bad. We see the people coping with their usual humour with incalculable hardship; we see generosity and self-sacrifice. We also see complacency, ignorance, selfishness. And amid universal rejoicing at the defeat of Japan, the first use of frightening atomic weaponry passes almost unnoticed.