Turnbull, Clive. Black War: the extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines

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Black War: the extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines
by Clive Turnbull.

Introduction by H Ian Hogbin.

FW Cheshire, Melbourne, 1948.
First Edition hardback. 274 pp.

‘Written in the shadow of his [Turnbull’s] experiences as a war correspondent in Europe and Asia, it was imbued with ‘the long shadows of massacre remembrance’ that had permeated his own family in Tasmania since the 1820s. It was also the first text to draw an analogue between the Nazis’ attempts to exterminate the Jews and British attempts to exterminate the Tasmanian Aborigines.’
– Lyndall Ryan, ‘“Hard evidence”: the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania’, in Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia, edited by: Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys, John Docker. ANU Press. Canberra, 2010.

Condition: Dust jacket is chipped upper and lower spine and worn bottom edge. No discernible marks to pages. Overall, in very good condition for its age. Rare.