Beyond the Broken Years: Australian military history in 1000 books

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What does Australia's military history reveal about us

In Beyond the Broken Years fifty years after Bill Gammage's acclaimed The Broken Years was published provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it's vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created, by whom, how and with what consequences.

Stanley explores military history and the storytellers from historians Charles Bean, Henry Reynolds, Joan Beaumont and David Horner to ''Storians' Peter FitzSimons and Les Carlyon and grapples with what it means to write military history, its different approaches, the rise of popular writers and much more. He asks readers to consider a genre that plays a central role in the Australian identity, but many take for granted.

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Peter Stanley is one of Australia's best-known military historians. Recently retired as Research Professor at UNSW Canberra, he was the Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, where he worked from 1980 to 2007. Peter is the author of more than forty books, including Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the AIF, which jointly won the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011. For NewSouth he's published Lost Boys of Anzac (2011), Armenia, Australia & the Great War (with Vicken Babkenian, 2016) and Charles Bean: Man, myth, legacy (editor, 2017).