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Author Brown, James, author

Title Anzac's long shadow : the cost of our national obsession / James Brown
Published Collingwood, Victoria : Redback, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (194 pages)
Series Redback ; 4
Redback ; 4
Contents Other books in the Redbacks series; Copyright; ANZAC'S LONG SHADOW; Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; Prologue: On Parade; Introduction: Outside the Hall of Memory; Chapter 1: Selling Remembrance; Chapter 2: An Afghan Complex; Chapter 3: No Metric but Death; Chapter 4: The Widening Chasm; Chapter 5: War is a Profession; Chapter 6: Legend and Reality; Chapter 7: Caring for Veterans; Chapter 8: Anzac Day; Chapter 9: A Distant Shore; Acknowledgments; Notes; References
Summary 'A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It's right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven't we learned about war, and what might be the cost of our Anzac obsession?'Defence analyst and former army officer James Brown believes that Australia is expending too much time, money and emotion on the Anzac legend, and that today's soldiers are suffering for it. Vividly evoking the war in Afghanistan, Brown reveals the experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2014)
Subject Soldiers -- Care -- Australia
Veterans -- Care -- Australia
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1914-1918
Australia -- History -- 1914-1918 -- Influence
Subject Australia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781922231352
1922231355