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Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean wasalso Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behindthe creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised forhis deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was alsoa public servant, institutional leader, author, activist, thinker, doer,philosopher, and polemicist. In Charles Bean, Man, myth, legacy, Australia's top military historians including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey,Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings analysethe man, the myth, and his long-reaching legacy. 

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Author:   Peter Stanley
Publisher:   NewSouth Publishing
Imprint:   NewSouth Publishing
ISBN:  

9781742234892

ISBN 10:   1742234895
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 August 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Anne Carroll OAM Introduction by Peter Stanley Part 1 Charles Bean: Life and Work Finding the man? Beginning the search for Charles Bean - Stephen Ellis Charles Bean on the Western Front - Peter Burness Bean at Tuggeranong - Jennifer Horsfield Re-reading Bean - Michael McKernan Bean and the making of the National Archives of Australia - Anne-Marie Conde The distributed Bean archive: bigger than we know - Michael Piggott Re-thinking Bean's philosophy of history - Martin Ball Bean and official history - Jeffrey Grey Charles Bean's 'Straight Line' - Peter Rees Part 2 The Australian official history tradition An adequate memorial: Charles Bean and Gavin Long - Peter Stanley Conflicts and controversies: the Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - Peter Edwards 'The Malayan Emergency and Konfrontasi' - Peter Dennis The Vietnam Conflict - Chris Clark Writing the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations - David Horner Doing History in the Digital Age: Compiling the Regional Command - South war diary - Garth Pratten Official History of East Timor/Afghanistan/Iraq - Craig Stockings

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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 Army’s 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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