Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean wasalso Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behindthe creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised forhis deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was alsoa public servant, institutional leader, author, activist, thinker, doer,philosopher, and polemicist.
In Charles Bean, Man, myth, legacy, Australia's top military historians including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey,Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings
analysethe man, the myth, and his long-reaching legacy.
Edited by:
Peter Stanley Imprint: New South Wales Univ Pres Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 153mm,
Weight: 360g ISBN:9781742234892 ISBN 10: 1742234895 Pages: 256 Publication Date:01 August 2017 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword by Anne Carroll OAM Introduction by Peter Stanley Part 1 Charles Bean: Life and Work Finding the man? Beginning the search for Charles Bean - Stephen Ellis Charles Bean on the Western Front - Peter Burness Bean at Tuggeranong - Jennifer Horsfield Re-reading Bean - Michael McKernan Bean and the making of the National Archives of Australia - Anne-Marie Conde The distributed Bean archive: bigger than we know - Michael Piggott Re-thinking Bean's philosophy of history - Martin Ball Bean and official history - Jeffrey Grey Charles Bean's 'Straight Line' - Peter Rees Part 2 The Australian official history tradition An adequate memorial: Charles Bean and Gavin Long - Peter Stanley Conflicts and controversies: the Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - Peter Edwards 'The Malayan Emergency and Konfrontasi' - Peter Dennis The Vietnam Conflict - Chris Clark Writing the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations - David Horner Doing History in the Digital Age: Compiling the Regional Command - South war diary - Garth Pratten Official History of East Timor/Afghanistan/Iraq - Craig Stockings
