Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National MythologyNo Marketing Blurb |
Contents
The Digger Tradition 19141919 | 10 |
The Anecdotal Republic | 36 |
The Singing Soldiers | 47 |
Transforming a Tradition | 63 |
The Echo of an Anzacs Cooee | 85 |
The Fiftythird Sunday | 105 |
The Great Spectacle | 120 |
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