Beyond the Broken Years

Australian Military History in 1000 Books

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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In Beyond The Broken Years – fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on World War One soldiers, was published – provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it's vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created. By whom, how and with what consequences.Stanley explores military history and the storytellers – from historians Charles Bean, Henry Reynolds, Joan Beaumont and David Horner to ''storians' Peter FitzSimons and Les Carlyon. And grapples with what it means to write military history, its different approaches, the rise of popular writers and much more. He asks readers to consider a genre that plays a central role in the Australian identity, but many take for granted.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-01
Mått:152 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:434 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:299
Förlag:NewSouth Publishing
ISBN:9781761170140

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Peter Stanley recently retired as Research Professor at UNSW Canberra. He has published over forty books, many in Australian military history, among which Bad Characters jointly won the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011. He was formerly Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, where he worked from 1980 to 2007. He has been a crucial participant in the field for over forty years, known as mentor, supervisor and examiner of doctoral theses, reviewer, critic, exhibition curator, and collaborator. He was inaugural President of Honest History and is a Principal of Defending Country, a coalition dedicated to encouraging the War Memorial to keep its undertaking to acknowledge Frontier Conflict fittingly.