Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont (.ePUB)
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Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont
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Overview: The Australian experience of war in all its complexity – from the home front as well as the battlefront – as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it.
‘If you read only one book about Australia’s experience of World War I … make it Broken Nation, an account that joins the history of the war to the home front, and that details the barbarism of the battlefields as well as the desolation, despair, and bitter divisions that devastated the communities left behind.’ – Marilyn Lake, Australian Book Review
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac ‘legend’. But it was also a war fought by the families at home. Their resilience in the face of hardship, their stoic acceptance of enormous casualty lists and their belief that their cause was just made the war effort possible.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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