Anzac journeys : returning to the battlefields of World War II / / Bruce Scates ; with Alexandra McCosker [and three others] [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Scates Bruce
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 307 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 940.540994
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Australia; World War, 1939-1945 - Battlefields - Australia
• Persona (resp. second.): McCoskerAlexandra
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; MAPS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; MONEY, MEASUREMENT AND TERMINOLOGY; Money; Measurement; Terminology; INTRODUCTION; 'This great sorrow'; PART 1 CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES; CHAPTER ONE 'IF ONLY I KNEW WHAT HAS BECOME OF HIM': The loss of Australia's prisoners of war; CHAPTER 2 WITNESS TO WAR: The first journeys; RECOVERY AND RETRIBUTION: WILLIAM STICPEWICH INVESTIGATES; RECOVERY AND REDEMPTION: A CHAPLAIN'S JOURNEY; RE-ENACTMENTS, REIMAGINING: SIMPSON'S DOCUMENTARY DRAMA; CHAPTER 3 BRING UP THE BODIES: Commemorating our war dead ; CHAPTER 4 UNSPEAKABLE HISTORIES: From Singapore to Hellfire PassMEMORY TRACES; COMPOSING MEMORY; CONTESTED GROUND; GROUNDING MEMORY; CHAPTER 5 THE DEATH MARCH: Journeys back to Sandakan; CONNECTING TO PLACE; DISRUPTED JOURNEYS; PART 2 DESERT AND ISLAND; CHAPTER SIX DEATH IN THE DESERT: North Africa; WAR IN THE DESERT; A SELECT FEW; CHAPTER SEVEN A POST-WA R DREAM: Greece and Crete; DESCENDANTS' JOURNEYS; STUDENT PILGRIMAGES; PART 3 AIR AND SEA; CHAPTER EIGHT SEEKING THE UNKNOWN: Remembering Sydney; THE SINKING OF SYDNEY; WAYS OF REMEMBERING; FINDING THE WRECK ; CHAPTER NINE JOURNEYS INTO NIGHT: Bomber CommandOPS: BOMBER COMMAND'S MISION; 'FALLEN AIRMEN': THE FIRST COMMEMORATIONS; RECOVERING MEMORY: LOCAL COMMEMORATIONS; TOWARDS A NATIONAL MEMORIAL; 'FINDING MY FATHER': PILGRIMAGES WITH BOMBER COMMAND; PART 4 AUSTRALIA'S FRONT LINE; CHAPTER TEN WALKING THE TRAIL: Kokoda; THE PILGRIMS' WAY: EARLY JOURNEYS; 'WALKING IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS': EXPERIENCING KOKODA; JOURNEYS 'HOME'; CHAPTER ELEVEN A CITY AT WAR: Darwin; CONCLUSION; 'A great consolation?'; NOTES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 THE LOSS OF AUSTRALIA'S PRISONERS OF WAR; CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST JOURNEYS ; CHAPTER 3 COMMEMORATING OUR WAR DEADCHAPTER 4 FROM SINGAPORE TO HELLFIRE PASS; CHAPTER 5 JOURNEYS BACK TO SANDAKAN; CHAPTER 6 NORTH AFRICA; CHAPTER 7 GREECE AND CRETE; CHAPTER 8 REMEMBERING SYDNEY; CHAPTER 9 BOMBER COMMAND; CHAPTER 10 KOKODA; CHAPTER 11 DARWIN; CONCLUSION; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Australians have been making pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two since the 1940s, from the jungles of New Guinea and South-East Asia to the mountains of Greece and the deserts of North Africa. They travel in search of the stories of lost loved ones, to mourn the dead and to come to grips with the past. With characteristic empathy, Bruce Scates charts the history of pilgrimages to Crete, Kokoda, Sandakan and Hellfire Pass. He explores the emotional resonance that these sites have for those who served and those who remember. Based on surveys, interviews, extensive fieldwork and archival research, Anzac Journeys offers insights into the culture of loss and commemoration and the hunger for meaning so pivotal to the experience of pilgrimage. Richly illustrated with full-colour maps and photographs from the 1940s to today, Anzac Journeys makes an important and moving contribution to Australian military history.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anzac journeys
• ISBN: 1-107-27319-6; 1-107-27394-3; 1-107-27720-5; 1-107-27517-2; 1-139-19642-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462832403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II