Bearing witness : the remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia's greatest war correspondent /Peter Rees
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TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Sydney : Allen & Unwin , 2015Description: 440 pages ;24 cmISBN: 9781742379548Subject(s): JournalistsGenre/Form: War correspondents -- Australia -- Biography.DDC classification: 070.4333 REE Summary: Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the man who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the man who created the Anzac legend. He is the man who was absolutely central to the creation of this country's most important cultural institution, the Australian War Memorial. Yet we know so little about the real man. Bean was not just a key figure in the telling of Australia's military history but also in the shaping of the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation
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Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the man who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the man who created the Anzac legend. He is the man who was absolutely central to the creation of this country's most important cultural institution, the Australian War Memorial. Yet we know so little about the real man. Bean was not just a key figure in the telling of Australia's military history but also in the shaping of the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation
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