Robert Bollard

In the Shadow of Gallipoli (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons; the war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. This book corrects such historical amnesia by looking at what occured on the Australian home front during WWI, showing that the war was a disaster and many Australians knew it. It not only considers the wartime strike wave resulting from the discontent and dissent, such as the Great Strike of 1917, but also the impact of international political events, including the Easter Rising in Ireland and the Russian Revolution. Demonstrating that the first year of peace was tumultuous, as strikes and riots involving returned Anzacs shook Australia throughout 1919, this book uncovers the history that has been obscured by the shadow of Anzac.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New South Wales Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742241449
• Artikelnr.: 38099425

Autorenporträt

Robert Bollard is a lecturer in history at Victoria University in Melbourne. He has published widely on the labor movement in Australia in WWI.