05770nam 2200769 450 991047987110332120170816162938.01-925495-04-31-921867-59-0(CKB)2670000000547263(EBL)1940078(SSID)ssj0001215101(PQKBManifestationID)11726564(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001215101(PQKBWorkID)11175819(PQKB)10454713(MiAaPQ)EBC4547291(MiAaPQ)EBC1940078(EXLCZ)99267000000054726320161114h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnzac memories living with the legend /Alistair Thomson ; foreword by Jay WinterNew edition.Clayton, Victoria :Monash University Publishing,2013.©20131 online resource (425 p.)Monash ClassicsDescription based upon print version of record.1-921867-58-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi; Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii; Note to readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv; Foreword: Memory and silence by Jay Winter. . . . . . . . . . . . . xv; Introduction to the new edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1; Introduction to the first edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4; Growing up with the Anzac legend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Oral history and Anzac memories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Percy Bird. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17; Bill Langham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19; Fred Farrall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22; Part I Making a legend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29; 1 The diggers' war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31; Gone for soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Wild colonial boys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Sailors and non-combatants; End of innocence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42; Embattled manhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45; Digger culture and identity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50; 2 Charles Bean and the Anzacs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53; An English Australian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54; Baptisms of fire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Writing at the cutting edge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Bean's Anzac Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72; 3 Memories of war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81; Percy Bird. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81; Bill Langham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90; Fred Farrall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107; Part II The politics of Anzac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1214 The return of the soldiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Coming home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124; Rehabilitation and the Repat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125; The home front. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127; A land fit for heroes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130; Hoodlums, revolutionaries and genuine diggers . . . . . . . . 134; 5 The battle for the Anzac legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Loyalists and disloyalists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137What is taboo in any family or in any society is never fixed. And neither is that body of family information which everybody knows but no one talks about. Mental illness is one such subject, and it created a kind of fence around one central element of Thomson's work in the 1980s - his grandfather Hector's story. He has had the courage to take that fence down and use a range of sources to enter the no man's land of suffering and isolation which was a part of his grandfather's life, and perforce, that of his grandmother and the young child who became his father. When the first edition was in preMonash ClassicsWorld War, 1914-1918CampaignsTurkeyGallipoli PeninsulaWorld War, 1914-1918AustraliaHistoriographyWorld War, 1914-1918Personal narratives, AustralianSoldiersAustraliaInterviewsVeteransAustraliaNational characteristics, AustralianAustraliaHistory20th centuryElectronic books.World War, 1914-1918CampaignsWorld War, 1914-1918Historiography.World War, 1914-1918SoldiersVeteransNational characteristics, Australian.940.3945940.41294Thomson Alistair148501Winter J. M.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910479871103321Anzac memories1767387UNINA