War Stories in Australia: Scholarship, Memory and Public Intellectualism

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Notes

¹For an analysis of the role of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs in the promulgation of the Anzac mythology, see Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, What's Wrong with Anzac: The Militarisation of Australian History, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2010, especially pp. 135–56. Many works address the fallacies in the Anzac mythology, but for two of the best see E. M. Andrews, The Anzac Illusion: Anglo-Australian Relations during World War I, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1993; and Craig Stockings ed. Zombie Myths of Australian Military History: The 10 Myths that Will Not Die, UNW Press, Sydney, 2010.

²Prior, Gallipoli, p. 252.

³Stockings, Bardia, p. 1.

⁴Stockings, Bardia, p. 1.

⁵Stockings, Bardia, pp. 256, 228, 244.

⁶Stockings, Bardia, p. 4.

⁷Hearder addresses the question of ‘Why “Weary” Dunlop?’ on pages 206–12.

⁸See K. S. Inglis, Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1998; Stephen Garton, The Cost of War: Australians Return, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996; Joy Damousi, The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1999 and Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2001; Bart Ziino, A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War, UWA Press, Perth, 2007; Pat Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006; Tanja Luckins, The Gates of Memory: Australian people's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War, Curtin University Books, Fremantle, 2004.

⁹See, for example, Clem Lloyd and Jacqui Rees, The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1994; Garton, The Cost of War; and, to a lesser extent, Marilyn Lake, The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1915–38, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987.

¹⁰Larson, Shattered Anzacs, p. 29.