Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend by Thomason, Alistair - 1994

Oxford University Press, 1994. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780195534917

Oxford University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. Hardback; light foxing to edge of pages, otherwise very good in creased dustjacket. ; The creation of the Anzac legend and the forms it has taken. The significance of the legend for Australian politics and society through the twentieth century, and its effect on the survivors of the Great War. Illustrated; +vipp. ; 282 pages .

Melbourne: Oxford University Press. very nice copy . Fine. Hardcover. First. 1994.

Oxford University Press Australia, 1994. Hardcover in Dustjacket. FINE. First Edition. Anzac Memories has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave ‘as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation’, and Michael Roper concluded that ‘an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live by’. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a ‘post-memory’ of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veterans’ war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. inc. photos, index, minimal shelf wear, dust jacket not price clipped, in protective cover, a very nice copy Size: Octavo. 304 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Biographies & Memoirs; Leaders & Notable People; Military; World War I. ISBN: 0195534913. ISBN/EAN: 9780195534917. Library of Congress No: 94160966. Dewey Code: 940.4/1294. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 101587. . 9780195534917

Melbourne, Oxford University Press first edition, hard cover in dust jacket A parallel history examines the making of the Anzac legend. This covers the journalism and official histories of Charles Bean, the Returned and Services League's assumption of the role of custodian of the Anzac legend, the creation of Anzac Day and the revival of the legend in recent histories and films. 220 x 145mm., pp. vi, 282, b/w plates, appendices, notes, select bibliography, index. H/cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., light rubbing mainly on back cover. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0195534913