The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War
by Bill Gammage
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Containing the diaries and letters of more than 1,000 Australian soldiers who served in World War I, this collection vividly reconstructs the valor and tragedy of their experience. The reasons behind the Great War and its profound effect on the attitudes and ideals of Australia are intertwined with intimate personal details in this beautifully constructed narrative.Tags
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This book is the one that originally got my interest in the Australians in World War I. It's references to the origin of the quotations especially the age of the soldier and what happened to them makes it so much more real than the average history book. Thank you Bill Gammage for instilling a passion ini me I will always be proud of.
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Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is best known as author of the ground-breaking military history The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.
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- Important places
- Australia
- Important events
- World War I (1914 | 1918)
- Original language
- English
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