- 349 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Australian military history is a landscape of legends, yet across the length and breadth of military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealization of Australian virtues can thrive. In this book, a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and fabrications that obscure the real story. Confronting and clear-eyed, it goes beyond the indulgent, politicized, and emotionally-charged rhetoric of Anzacâthat sacrosanct idea in the national psycheâto find out exactly what it means to be Australian at war, and proud of it.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: Myths and Australian Military History
- 1 Australian military history doesnât begin on Gallipoli Craig Wilcox
- 2 The âsuperiorâ, all-volunteer AIF John Connor
- 3 What about New Zealand? The problematic history of the Anzac connection Chris Clark
- 4 Other peopleâs wars Craig Stockings
- 5 âThey also servedâ: Exaggerating womenâs role in Australiaâs wars Eleanor Hancock
- 6 The nonsense of universal Australian âfair playâ in war Dale Blair
- 7 The unnecessary waste: Australians in the late Pacific campaigns Karl James
- 8 Lost at sea: Missing out on Australiaâs naval history Alastair Cooper
- 9 âLandmarkâ battles and the myths of Vietnam Bob Hall and Andrew Ross
- 10 The myth that Australia âpunches above its weightâ Albert Palazzo
- 11 Critical reflections on the AustraliaâUS alliance Michael McKinley
- 12 Monumental mistake: Is war the most important thing in Australian history? Peter Stanley
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index