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

By:

STOCKINGS Craig

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Kensington, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2012Description: xi, 335 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781742232881 (pbk.) :

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Summary: 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.

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Book	Defence Academy Library On-Shelf	355.009 STO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available
Book	Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf	355.30994 STO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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