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Charles Bean: Man, myth, legacy

English

By (author): Peter Stanley

Australias official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australias first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant, institutional leader, author, activist, thinker, doer, philosopher and polemicist.

In Charles Bean, Man, myth, legacy Australias top military historians including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings analyse the man, the myth and his long-reaching legacy.

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  • The nations leading military historians including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings examine Beans life in an attempt to grasp the totality of his legacy.
  • This is the first collective attempt to capture and portray the man, his work and his influence on Australian history.
  • A definitive work that will be purchased by military history readers, specialists and students alike.
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2017
  • Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: Australia
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781742234892

About Peter Stanley

Peter Stanley is Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra. He has published 30 books mostly in Australian military history but also in medical history about the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire and the military history of British India. He is an Associate Director of ACSACS the General Editor of the Armys Cambridge University Press series and President of Honest History. His most recent book (with Vicken Babkenian) is Armenia Australia & the Great War.

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