| Description |
xii, 350 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Australians 'over there' -- Out in the Soudan / E. Phillips -- 'Those Sudan days / Tom Gunning -- 'The arrival of the New South Wales troops in South Africa' / A. B. Paterson -- The Boer war : a perspective from the Glen Innes examiner, 1899-1902 / Edited by A. W. Cameron -- Australia at the front : a colonial view of the Boer war / Frank Wilkinson -- Tommy Cornstalk / J. H. M. Abbott -- 'Experiences of a Victorian nurse in South Africa' / Julia Anderson -- Happy dispatches / A. B. Paterson -- A single flame / Martin Boyd -- The grey battalion / May Tilton -- 'Over there' with the Australians / R. Hugh Knyvett -- What to know in Egypt : a guide for Australian soldiers / C. E. W. Bean -- By-ways on service : notes from an Australian journal / Hector Dinning -- 'A Bedouin garden' / Charles Barrett -- The Australian imperial force in Sinai and Palestine 1914-1918 / Henry Gullett -- Tucker sees India / M. L. Skinner -- A woman's experiences in the Great War / Louise Mack -- Flesh in armour / Leonard Mann -- War letters / John Monash -- The middle parts of fortune : Somme & Ancre 1916 / Frederic Manning -- Hell's bells and mademoiselles / Joseph Maxwell -- Trooper to the southern cross / Angela Thirkell -- My brother Jack / George Johnston -- We were the rats / Lawson Glassop -- The twenty thousand thieves / Eric Lambert -- 'Isle of content' / David McNicoll -- Matilda waltzes with the Tommies / Mary Kent Hughes -- In the arms of the Japanese / J. E. Simons -- Into the smother / Ray Parkin -- 'New Guinea : the twilight war' / Kenneth Slessor -- Green armour / Osmar White -- A kind of cattle / Barney Roberts -- The autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse / Nancy Wake -- 'Tourist with Haiku' / T. A. G. Hungerford -- Korean diary : a journey to Japan and Korea in 1950 / Frank Clune -- The tall man / A. M. Harris -- Heroes / John Pilger -- When the buffalo fight / Lex McAulay -- House of love : life in a Vietnamese hospital / Susan Terry -- In good company : one man's war in Vietnam / Gary McKay -- The odd angry shot / William Nagle -- 'A holiday at the war' / Jane Ross -- A dirty little war / John Martinkus -- Our woman in Kabul / Irris Makler -- Crosses of sacrifice / J. C. Waters -- 'Gallipoli pilgrimage -- 1965' / K. S. Inglis -- 'Gallipoli -- the idea' / Peter Weir -- 'Beaucoup Australians ici' / Peter Pierce -- No moon tonight / Don Charlwood -- 'Travelling in memories' / Hank Nelson -- Tarakan : an Australian tragedy / Peter Stanley -- Too many men / Lily Brett -- Legless in Ginza / Robin Gerster -- Again Korea / Wilfred Burchett -- Ceremony at Lang Nho / Georgia Savage -- Not going to Vietnam : journeys through two wars / Garrie Hutchinson -- 'Open for business' / Sian Powell |
| Summary |
This anthology reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world. From the Sudan in 1885 to Afghanistan in 2001, the connection of war to travel is illustrated in the observations of many writers |
| Analysis |
Wars |
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Biography |
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Description and travel |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 347-350 |
| Subject |
War and literature -- Australia.
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War -- Literary collections.
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War in literature.
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Travelers' writings, Australian.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- History, Military.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005863
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| Genre/Form |
War stories, Australian
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Literature.
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| Author |
Gerster, Robin, 1953-
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Pierce, Peter, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0522850871 : |
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