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Reconsidering Gallipoli (Paperback)
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Reconsidering Gallipoli (Paperback)
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Loot Price R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
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The British cultural history of the Gallipoli campaign has been
overlooked until now - this is a significant book as it offers the
first real opportunity for this important campaign to be included
in undergraduate courses on WWI. The commemoration of war is a
particularly vibrant area of study - Anzac Day, commemorating the
landings that began the Gallipoli campaign, is central to
Australian national consciousness and this book examines why. A
crucial argument in the cultural history of the First World War was
sparked by Paul Fussell's contention that the war signified a
profound cultural rupture; in widening the debate from the Western
Front, this book supports the counter argument that romantic modes
of expression retained resonance and utility. In Australia, the
renewal of the story of Gallipoli by historians and film-makers
(notably Peter Weir's 1981 film starring Mel Gibson) has profoundly
altered the national sense of identity and society's perceptions of
the armed forces; the authors explains how the writing of this
particular event has developed and achieved this central position.
An essential volume for those interested in British military and
Australian history, postcolonialism and nation building, from
academics and students through to the general reader. -- .
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