Anzac's Long Shadow

Anzac's Long Shadow
Author: James Brown
Publisher: Black Inc.
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2014-02-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1922231355

‘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.

The Anzac Girls

The Anzac Girls
Author: Peter Rees
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2014-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1743437439

The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Now a major six-part television series. By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Their strength and dignity were remarkable. Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps and the wards, and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to shine through and enrich our experience. Profoundly moving, Anzac Girls is a story of extraordinary courage and humanity shown by a group of women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised in our history. Peter Rees has changed that understanding forever.

Anzac Ted

Anzac Ted
Author: Belinda Landsberry
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1775592065

Artillery at Anzac

Artillery at Anzac
Author: Chris Roberts
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1922387940

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

Scarecrow Army

Scarecrow Army
Author: Leon Davidson
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1925126595

They had gone looking for the adventure of a lifetime. An engaging and accessible account of the Gallipoli Story. On 25 April 1925, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders landed at an unnamed cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They had come to fight the Turks. They thought the battle would be over in three days, but months later they were still in the trenches they dug at the landing. Anzac Cove became a reverse graveyard where the bodies lay above the ground and the living slept under it.

ANZACs at War

ANZACs at War
Author: George Low
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 9781844420599

Maori challenge The forgotten five War in the wet Test by battle Regan's Raiders Killing zone Outback Army Sub-Chaser Secret in the sand Island of fear Outlaw from the Outback The warlord.

Gallipoli and the Anzacs

Gallipoli and the Anzacs
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2010
Genre: Anzac Day
ISBN: 9781877007514

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

Meet... the ANZACs

Meet... the ANZACs
Author: Claire Saxby
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0857981943

A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including our brave Anzac soldiers. Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. It is the name given to the Australian and New Zealand troops who landed at Gallipoli in World War I. The name is now a symbol of bravery and mateship. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Douglas Mawson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.

German Anzacs and the First World War

German Anzacs and the First World War
Author: John Williams
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780868405087

By 1914, Australia's German immigrants were well-regarded in their communities and made up (after Irish and Scots) the fourth-largest white ethnic community in Australia. This history traces the experience of the immigrants who enlisted for service in World War I and the difficulties they faced.