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Unnecessary Wars by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australiana
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coi ...Show more
What's Wrong with Anzac The Militarisation of Australian History by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds; with Mark McKenna and Joy Damousi
Category: Military
In recent years Anzac - an idea as much as an actual army corps - has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembrance Day, VE Day, VP Day and other military anniversaries grow in significance each y ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
Category: Australiana
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more