Anzac's dirty dozen: 12 myths of Australian military history

Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of Australian virtues can thrive. In Anzacs Dirty Dozen...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Sydney NewSouth Publ. 2012
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Zusammenfassung:Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of Australian virtues can thrive. In Anzacs Dirty Dozen a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and fabrications that obscure the real story
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xi, 335 p. 24 cm