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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Bill Gammage published a seminal thesis in 1974, The Broken Years, which drew on diaries and letters from WWI participants, and invigorated a generation of scholars. This fascinating new book for the general reader is a personal survey and appraisal of Australian military history. From books written by men who fought in the battles they describe, to amateur historians recording official operational accounts, to journalists writing dramatised versions (‘storians, a Peter FitzSimons’ term) and academic historians analysing and evaluating, this shows why it’s essential to question who writes our history, thus creating our perceptions of the past. Lindy
Leading historian Peter Stanley traces the history of Australia's military history in 1000 books that reveal the many facets of our continuing fascination with our military past.
What does Australia's military history reveal about us?
In Beyond The Broken Years, 50 years after Bill Gammage's acclaimed The Broken Years was published, provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it's vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created, by whom, how and with what consequences.
Stanley explores military history and the storytellers from historians Charles Bean, Henry Reynolds, Joan Beaumont and David Horner to "'Storians" Peter FitzSimons and Les Carlyon, and grapples with what it means to write military history, its different approaches, the rise of popular writers and much more. He asks readers to consider a genre that plays a central role in the Australian identity, but many take for granted.
By:
Peter Stanley Imprint: New South Books Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 153mm,
ISBN:9781761170140 ISBN 10: 1761170147 Pages: 272 Publication Date:01 November 2024 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Peter Stanley is one of Australia's best-known military historians. Recently retired as Research Professor at UNSW Canberra, he was previously the Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, where he worked from 1980 to 2007. Peter is the author of more than forty books, including Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the AIF, which jointly won the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011. For NewSouth he's published Lost Boys of Anzac (2011), Armenia, Australia & the Great War (with Vicken Babkenian, 2016) and Charles Bean: Man, myth, legacy (editor, 2017).
Reviews for Beyond The Broken Years: Australian Military History in 1000 Books
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Bill Gammage published a seminal thesis in 1974, The Broken Years, which drew on diaries and letters from WWI participants, and invigorated a generation of scholars. This fascinating new book for the general reader is a personal survey and appraisal of Australian military history. From books written by men who fought in the battles they describe, to amateur historians recording official operational accounts, to journalists writing dramatised versions (‘storians, a Peter FitzSimons’ term) and academic historians analysing and evaluating, this shows why it’s essential to question who writes our history, thus creating our perceptions of the past. Lindy
