As Australia's largest wartime port, Fremantle played a unique role in the western world's military history. Featuring extraordinary photographs from the time, this volume records Fremantle's history of departure and reunion, victory and celebration, grief and loss, and dissent and activism.

Deborah Gare is an associate professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and leads the history program at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She is the author or editor of several leading works, including Making Australian History: The Politics of the Past Since 1788. She is a former research associate at Curtin University, a visiting fellow of the University of British Columbia, and a visiting scholar at the University of Manchester. Madison Lloyd-Jones has been a lecturer and tutor at the University of Notre Dame Australia and a coordinator of the city of Fremantle's Heritage Festival.