TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burton,Mirranda
TI  - Underground: marsupial outlaws and other rebels of Australia's War in Vietnam : a graphic novel 
SN  - 9781760631475
U1  - 741.5994 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Australia
KW  - Army
KW  - Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Draft
KW  - Wombats
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Undercover operations
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - War comics
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Graphic novels
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; For ages 14+
N2  - Why would a wombat be registered for war? It's 1965, and an old Tattersalls barrel starts rolling marbles to randomly conscript young Australian men to fight in the war in Vietnam. Melbourne housewife Jean McLean is outraged, as are her artist friends Clif and Marlene Pugh, who live in the country with their wombat, Hooper. Determined to wreck the system, Jean forms the Save Our Sons movement's Victorian branch, and she and her supporters take to the streets to protest. Meanwhile, in the small country town of Katunga, Bill Cantwell joins the Australian Army, and in Saigon, young Mai Ho is writing letters to South Vietnamese soldiers from her school desk. And when Hooper's call-up papers arrive, he mysteriously goes underground... As these stories intersect in unexpected ways and destinies entwine, a new world gradually emerges - a world in which bridges of understanding make more sense than war. This stunning graphic novel, full of empathy, courage and resistance, is based on true events
ER  -