The Anzac Experience

Author : James Brown
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781922231352

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Anzac's Long Shadow by James Brown Pdf

‘A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It’s right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven’t we learned about war, and what might be the cost of our Anzac obsession?’ Defence analyst and former army officer James Brown believes that Australia is expending too much time, money and emotion on the Anzac legend, and that today’s soldiers are suffering for it. Vividly evoking the war in Afghanistan, Brown reveals the experience of the modern soldier. He looks closely at the companies and clubs that trade on the Anzac story. He shows that Australians spend a lot more time looking after dead warriors than those who are alive. We focus on a cult of remembrance, instead of understanding a new world of soldiering and strategy. And we make it impossible to criticise the Australian Defence Force, even when it makes the same mistakes over and over. None of this is good for our soldiers or our ability to deal with a changing world. With respect and passion, Brown shines a new light on Anzac’s long shadow and calls for change. "Bold, original, challenging - James Brown tackles the burgenoning Anzac industry and asks Australians to re-examine how we think about the military and modern-day service." - Leigh Sales "The best book yet written, not just on Australia's Afghan war, but on war itself and the creator/destroyer myth of Anzac." - John Birmingham James Brown is a former Australian Army officer, who commanded a cavalry troop in Southern Iraq, served on the Australian taskforce headquarters in Baghdad, and was attached to Special Forces in Afghanistan. Today he is the Military Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy where he works on strategic military issues and defence policy. He also chairs the NSW Government’s Contemporary Veterans Forum. He lives in Sydney.

Author : Christopher Pugsley
Publisher : Raupo
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114455285

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The ANZAC Experience by Christopher Pugsley Pdf

The Anzac Experience strips away the myth of the Anzacs being natural soldiers who only had to pick up a rifle to be superb fighters in battle. It tells the gripping story of New Zealanders, Australians and Canadians at war – from the Boer War in South Africa to the Empire's involvement in the cataclysmic struggle of 1914-18.This is the story of citizen armies becoming professional as they learned the lessons of the Gallipoli landings and applied these to the battles of Western Front in France and Flanders. By trail and error these colonial forces became expert in the business of war, so that by 1918 they were the fighting elite in the British Armies in France.Christopher Pugsley – author of the seminal Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story – assesses who was first among equals and how the crucible of war shaped New Zealand and Australian identity forever. Richly illustrated with historical photographs and plentiful maps, The Anzac Experience is a rare blend of social analysis and military history, examining the conduct of war, the characters of the men who took part, and the impact their actions had on the young societies they sought to defend.

Author : Jim McKay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811300264

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Transnational Tourism Experiences at Gallipoli by Jim McKay Pdf

This book offers a fresh account of the Anzac myth and the bittersweet emotional experience of Gallipoli tourists. Challenging the straightforward view of the Anzac obsession as a kind of nationalistic military Halloween, it shows how transnational developments in tourism and commemoration have created the conditions for a complex, dissonant emotional experience of sadness, humility, anger, pride and empathy among Anzac tourists. Drawing on the in-depth testimonies of travellers from Australia and New Zealand, McKay shines a new and more complex light on the history and cultural politics of the Anzac myth. As well as making a ground breaking, empirically-based intervention into the culture wars, this book offers new insights into the global memory boom and transnational developments in backpacker tourism, sports tourism and “dark” or “dissonant” tourism.

Author : Alistair Thomson
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921867583

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Anzac Memories by Alistair Thomson Pdf

Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave ‘as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation’, and Michael Roper concluded that ‘an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live by’. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a ‘post-memory’ of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veterans’ war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write about twenty years ago because of the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly released Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veterans’ post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and memory.

Author : Robert Lewis,Timothy Francis Gurry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Anzac Day
ISBN : 0949380199

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The Anzac Experience by Robert Lewis,Timothy Francis Gurry Pdf

Practical classroom activities - Reasons for entry into the war - Experiences at Gallipoli - Australians fighting on the Western Front - War in the Middle East - The Unknown Australian Soldier - Local war memorial - ANZAC Day Ceremony - Simpson & his donkey - Lone Pine - Aboriginal soldiers - Nurses on the Western Front - Animals at war.

Author : John Crawford
Publisher : Massey University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780994132543

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Experience of a Lifetime by John Crawford Pdf

The First World War is widely conceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors pushed na&ïve young men into a nightmare of mud and blood that killed millions and left scarred and embittered survivors. However, the ongoing reinterpretation of the First World War reveals that matters were rather more nuanced and complex. Hardship and death were all too common, but there were positive experiences, too. Vast numbers of people, for example, travelled to new parts of the world and encountered new cultures, inspiring a sense of wonder and respect. Military tactics were improved, and great military commanders of the inter-war and Second World War periods came to prominence during the First World War. The conflict also had a formative influence on politicians, writers, artists, union leaders, businessmen and some ethnic minorities, who used their participation to press for equal rights and full citizenship. This book's 16 chapters, written by a range of leading New Zealand and international historians, explains how.

Author : Joy Damousi,Marilyn Lake
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0521457106

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Gender and War by Joy Damousi,Marilyn Lake Pdf

This exciting 1995 collection of essays explores the inter-relationship of gender and war in Australia. Its focus is women's and men's experiences in WWI, WWII and the Vietnam War. Challenging the traditional images of men and women in wartime, this book shows that war offers opportunities that erode gender boundaries.

Author : Belinda Landsberry
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781775592068

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Anzac Ted by Belinda Landsberry Pdf

Author : Chris Roberts,Paul Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922387943

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Artillery at Anzac by Chris Roberts,Paul Stevens Pdf

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Anzac Day
ISBN : 187700751X

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Gallipoli and the Anzacs by Anonim Pdf

An education resource for secondary school children about the experiences of the Anzacs at Gallipoli in 1915. Incorporates teachers notes and multimedia.

Author : Mesut Uyar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925275230

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The Ottoman Defence Against the ANZAC Landing - 25 April 1915 by Mesut Uyar Pdf

The landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 represents a defining moment, not only for Australia and New Zealand, but also for Turkey. However a detailed account of the landing from the Turkish perspective has yet to be published in English despite the 100 years that has elapsed since the first ANZACs scrambled ashore. Descriptions of the Ottoman forces such as the composition of units, the men who commanded them, their weapons, capabilities and reactions to the ANZAC invasion have generally remained undocumented or described in piecemeal fashion based on secondary sources. The lack of a Turkish perspective has made it almost impossible to construct a balanced account of the events of that fateful April day. The Ottoman Defence against the Anzac Landing: 25 April 1915 seeks to redress this imbalance, portraying the Ottoman experience based on previously unpublished Ottoman and Turkish sources. This meticulously researched volume describes the Ottoman Army in fascinating detail from its order of battle, unit structure and composition, training and doctrine to the weapons used against the ANZACs. Using Ottoman military documents, regimental war diaries, personal accounts and memoirs, author Mesut Uyar describes the unfolding campaign, unravelling its complexity and resolving many of the questions that have dogged accounts for a century. This valuable chronicle will enhance readers’ understanding of the Ottoman war machine, its strengths and weaknesses and why it proved so successful in containing the Allied invasion. Detailed maps and photographs published for the first time add clarity and portray many of the men the ANZACs referred to with grudging respect as ‘Johnny Turk’.

Author : Dave Dye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0992482607

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The Anzac Legend by Dave Dye Pdf

A graphic history which tells the story of the landing of the ANZACs on Gallipoli during the 1914 - 1918 War.

Author : Chris Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922132253

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The Landing at ANZAC 1915 by Chris Roberts Pdf

The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history – myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account questions several of the claims of Charles Bean’s magisterial and much-quoted Australian official history and presents a fresh examination of the evidence from a range of participants. The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 reaches a carefully argued conclusion in which Roberts draws together the threads of his analysis delivering some startling findings. But the author’s interest extends beyond the simple debunking of hallowed myths, and he produces a number of lessons from the armies of today. This is a book that pulls the Gallipoli campaign into the modern era and provides a compelling argument for its continuing relevance. In short, today’s armies must never forget the lessons of Gallipoli.

Author : Joy Damousi,Deborah Tout-Smith,Bart Ziino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000201345

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Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War by Joy Damousi,Deborah Tout-Smith,Bart Ziino Pdf

The Great War of 1914-1918 was fought on the battlefield, on the sea and in the air, and in the heart. Museums Victoria’s exhibition World War I: Love and Sorrow exposed not just the nature of that war, but its depth and duration in personal and familial lives. Hailed by eminent scholar Jay Winter as "one of the best which the centenary of the Great War has occasioned", the exhibition delved into the war’s continuing emotional claims on descendants and on those who encounter the war through museums today. Contributors to this volume, drawn largely from the exhibition’s curators and advisory panel, grapple with the complexities of recovering and presenting difficult histories of the war. In eleven essays the book presents a new, more sensitive and nuanced narrative of the Great War, in which families and individuals take centre stage. Together they uncover private reckonings with the costs of that experience, not only in the years immediately after the war, but in the century since.

Author : Alistair Thomson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005164996

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Anzac Memories by Alistair Thomson Pdf

Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994 (OUP), and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave 'as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation', and Michael Roper concluded that 'an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live by'. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a 'post-memory' of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veterans' war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write about twenty years ago because of the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly-released Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veterans post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and memory.