Beyond the Broken Years
Australian Military History in 1000 Books
$43.16
- Paperback
299 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2024
Summary
What does Australia’s military history reveal about us?
Fifty years after Bill Gammage’s classic The Broken Years was published, provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it’s vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created. By whom, how, and with what consequences.
Stanley explores military history and the storytellers, from historians Charles Bean, Henry Reynolds, Joan Beaumont, and David Horner to ‘storians’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761170140 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761170147 |
| Author: | Peter Stanley |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 299 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 233mm x 155mm |
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About The Author
Peter Stanley
Peter Stanley recently retired as Research Professor at UNSW Canberra. He has published over forty books, many in Australian military history, among which Bad Characters jointly won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History in 2011. He was formerly Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, where he worked from 1980 to 2007. He has been a crucial participant in the field for over forty years, known as mentor, supervisor and examiner of doctoral theses, reviewer, critic, exhibition curator, and collaborator. He was inaugural President of Honest History and is a Principal of Defending Country, a coalition dedicated to encouraging the War Memorial to keep its undertaking to acknowledge Frontier Conflict fittingly.
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