| Description |
xviii, 406 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Monash classics |
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Monash classics
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| Summary |
What is taboo in any family or in any society is never fixed. And neither is that body of family information which everybody knows but no one talks about. Mental illness is one such subject, and it created a kind of fence around one central element of Thomson's work in the 1980s - his grandfather Hector's story. He has had the courage to take that fence down and use a range of sources to enter the no man's land of suffering and isolation which was a part of his grandfather's life, and perforce, that of his grandmother and the young child who became his father. When the first edition was in preparation, Alistair Thomson's father objected strenuously to any mention in the book of his father's (Alistair's grandfather's) mental illness; reluctantly Alistair agreed to leave out the subject. We can understand why the author's father, himself a soldier, felt so strongly |
| Analysis |
Anecdotes |
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Army personnel |
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Australian |
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Australian Army |
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Australian miscellaneous writings (Australia) |
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Biography |
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Gallipoli |
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History |
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Interviews |
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Military history (Australia) |
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National characteristics |
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Oral history |
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Veterans |
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World War 1 |
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World War I (Australia) |
| Notes |
"Foreword by Jay Winter" -- Cover |
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Originally published: Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-393) and index |
| Notes |
Originally published Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1994 |
| Subject |
Australia. Australian Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
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Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
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National characteristics, Australian.
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Soldiers -- Australia -- Interviews.
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Veterans -- Australia.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Australian.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Historiography.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009594
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| Author |
Winter, J. M., writer of supplementary textual content
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| ISBN |
9781921867583 |
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