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vi, 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Growing up with the Anzac legend. Oral history and Anzac memories. Percy Bird. Bill Langham. Fred Farrall -- Pt. I. Making a legend. 1. The diggers' war. Gone for soldiers. Wild colonial boys. Sailors and non-combatants. End of innocence. Embattled manhood. Digger culture and identity. 2. Charles Bean and the Anzacs. An English Australian. Baptisms of fire. Writing at the cutting edge. Bean's Anzac Book. 3. Memories of war. Percy Bird. Bill Langham. Fred Farrall -- Pt. II. The politics of Anzac. 4. The return of the soldiers. Coming home. Rehabilitation and the Repat. The home front. A land fit for heroes? Hoodlums, revolutionaries and genuine diggers. 5. The battle for the Anzac legend. Loyalists and disloyalists. The politics of returned servicemen. Commemorating the Anzacs. Bean's Anzac history. 6. Talk and taboo in postwar memories. Percy Bird. Bill Langham. Fred Farrall -- Pt. III. Anzac today. 7. Old diggers. Another war. Growing old in Australia. Remembering in later life. 8. The Anzac revival. The Anzac mystique under fire...and re-emergent. Anzac histories and Australian popular memory. Anzac Day, 1987. 9. Living with the Legend. Percy Bird. Bill Langham. Fred Farrall. A past we can live with? Appendix 1 Oral history and popular memory. The Anzac oral history project. Contesting 'the voice of the past'. The oral history relationship. A popular memory interview approach. Writing memory biographies. Appendix 2 Brief details of interviewees |
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World War 1 Army operations |
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World War 1 Army operations |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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The author's thesis, University of Sussex 1990 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 259-275 |
| Subject |
Australia. Australian Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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Australia. Australian Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- History.
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Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
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National characteristics, Australian.
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Soldiers -- Australia -- Interviews.
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Veterans -- Australia.
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Veterans -- Australia -- Biography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Historiography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009594
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| LC no. |
93364550 |
| ISBN |
0195534913 |
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0195537432 |
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