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Anzac's Dirty Dozen

12 Myths of Australian Military History

By: Craig Stockings (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 April 2012

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Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of 'Australian' virtues can thrive. In Anzac's Dirty Dozen a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and fabrications that obscure the real story. Did our military history start at Gallipoli? Do we really punch above our weight in military might? Are our soldiers more ethical than others in combat? Is the US-Australia Alliance worth the trouble? And what if the role of Australian women in the war effort has been exaggerated, so that half the population can feel included in the Anzac story? Confronting and clear-eyed, Anzac's Dirty Dozen goes beyond the indulgent, politicised and emotionally-charged rhetoric of Anzac - that sacrosanct idea in the national psyche - to find out exactly what it means to be Australian at war, and proud of it.

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"One role of the historian is to skewer, bravely and repeatedly, the carbuncles of popular prejudice and superstition. These historians perform their surgery with great verve and authority. The result is that rare thing: a book that is not only a great pleasure, but also a national duty, to read." --Paul Ham, historian and author, "Hiroshima Nagasaki"

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Non-Fiction History Military History Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History Anzac History General Anzac History

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Contributors	p. viii
Introduction: Myths and Australian Military History	p. 1
Australian military history doesn't begin on Gallipoli	p. 11
The 'superior', all-volunteer AIF	p. 35
What about New Zealand? The problematic history of the Anzac connection	p. 51
Other people's wars	p. 73
'They also served': Exaggerating women's role in Australia's wars	p. 100
The nonsense of universal Australian 'fair play' in war	p. 112
The unnecessary waste: Australians in the late Pacific campaigns	p. 138
Lost at sea: Missing out on Australia's naval history	p. 165
'Landmark' battles and the myths of Vietnam	p. 186
The myth that Australia 'punches above its weight'	p. 210
Critical reflections on the Australia-US alliance	p. 235
Monumental mistake: Is war the most important thing in Australian history?	p. 260
Epilogue	p. 287
Notes	p. 293
Index	p. 323
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12 Myths of Australian Military History

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