World War One
A History in 100 Stories
Published on 21. October 2015
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-14-379998-6 (ISBN)
Description
World War One: A History in 100 Stories remembers not just the men who fought, and those who lost their lives in during the battles of WWI. We hear the stories of the women and families who were affected, and those who returned to Australia: the gassed, the crippled, the insane--all those irreparably damaged by war. There has been no shortage of heroic stories over the course of the Anzac Centenary: stories of courage and sacrifice, fortitude and endurance, mateship and resolve. But a hundred years on, there is a need for other stories as well--the stories too often marginalized in favor of nation-building narratives. Drawn from a unique collection of sources, including repatriation files, these heartbreaking and deeply personal stories reveal a broken and suffering generation--gentle men driven to violence, mothers sent insane with grief, the hopelessness of rehabilitation and the quiet, pervasive sadness of loss. This is an unflinching and remarkable social history that makes an important contribution to the way we remember. Telling the whole truth about war requires its own kind of courage.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hawthorn
Australia
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Australia
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1860 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-379998-6 (9780143799986)
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10/2015
1st Edition
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Persons
Bruce Scates is currently Professor of History and Australian Studies, and Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. Scates is an award-winning teacher, novelist, and historian. His publications include Return to Gallipoli, A New Australia, The Cambridge History of the Shrine of Remembrance and Women and the Great War (co-authored with Raelene Frances), which won the coveted NSW Premier's History Award. Bruce played a leading role in the production of the recent ABC mini series The War that Changed Us. He was also featured in an ABC Compass program exploring pilgrimages to the cemeteries of the Great War. Rebecca Wheatley is a PhD candidate at the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. Rebecca's research explores the teaching of Anzac and Australia's war history as a pedagogical, political, and historical issue over the last century and in contemporary Australia. Rebecca is a contributing author to The Cambridge History of the First World War and Anzac Journeys: Returning to the Battlefields of World War Two. In 2015, Rebecca accompanied the Victorian Premier's Spirit of Anzac Prize group across Gallipoli and the Western Front as the Tour Historian. Laura James is a PhD candidate with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. Laura is also a contributing editor to the forthcoming publication Battlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritage.