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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kensington, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2012Description: xi, 335 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781742232881 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): 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 39374-2001
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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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