Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend
by Alistair Thomson
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What is taboo in any family or in any society is never fixed. And neither is that body of family information which everybody knows but no one talks about. Mental illness is one such subject, and it created a kind of fence around one central element of Thomson's work in the 1980s - his grandfather Hector's story. He has had the courage to take that fence down and use a range of sources to enter the no man's land of suffering and isolation which was a part of his grandfather's life, and show more perforce, that of his grandmother and the young child who became his father. When the first edition was in pre show lessTags
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Alistair Thomson is Professor of History at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 940.41294 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe Military History Of World War I Operations And Units
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- D547 .A8 .T466 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) World War I (1914-1918)
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