Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia's Greatest War Correspondent

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Peter Rees (Author)

Bearing Witness

The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia's Greatest War Correspondent

Peter Rees (Author)

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Allen & Unwin
25 March 2015

Biography: general; Press & journalism; Biography - Australian

Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. He is the patriot who was central to the establishment of one of this country's most important cultural institutions, the Australian War Memorial. Yet we know so little about him as a man.

Bearing Witness changes that omission in our national biography. This is the first complete portrait of Charles Bean. It is the story of a boy from Bathurst and his search for truth: in the bush, on the battlefield and in the writing of the official history of Australia's involvement in World War I. But beyond this, it is a powerful and detailed exploration of his life, his accomplishments and a marriage that sustained and enriched him.

Insightful, unexpected and compelling, Bearing Witness gives rich personality to a remarkable life.

Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia's Greatest War Correspondent by Peter Rees at Abbey's Bookshop 131 York Street, Sydney

By: Peter Rees (Author)
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 777g
ISBN: 9781742379548
ISBN 10: 1742379540
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 25 March 2015
Recommended Age: From
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), Killing Juanita: A true story of murder and corruption (2004), which was a winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, Desert Boys and Lancaster Men (2013). He lives in Canberra.

Reviews for Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia's Greatest War Correspondent

'Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the head of the most influential figure in Australia's military history. Rees's superb book shows how Bean bore witness to Australia's Great War.' - Prof. Peter Stanley, UNSW Canberra. 'Part sophisticated military history, part story for a nation, Peter Rees provides a warm and deeply moving portrait of Charles Bean, one of the greatest Australians of the twentieth century.' - Michael McKernan