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Anzac memories : living with the legend / / Alistair Thomson ; foreword by Jay Winter



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Autore: Thomson Alistair Visualizza persona
Titolo: Anzac memories : living with the legend / / Alistair Thomson ; foreword by Jay Winter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Clayton, Victoria : , : Monash University Publishing, , 2013
©2013
Edizione: New edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
Disciplina: 940.3945
940.41294
Soggetto topico: World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Turkey - Gallipoli Peninsula
World War, 1914-1918 - Australia - Historiography
World War, 1914-1918
Soldiers - Australia
Veterans - Australia
National characteristics, Australian
Soggetto geografico: Australia History 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): WinterJ. M.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Oral 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Wild 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Writing 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
4 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Loyalists and disloyalists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Sommario/riassunto: What 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 pre
Titolo autorizzato: Anzac memories  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-925495-04-3
1-921867-59-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Monash Classics