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Trivialising the Anzacs

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May 2014, no. 361

Anzac Memories: Living with the legend, Second edition by Alistair Thomson

Monash University Publishing, $34.95 pb, 423 pp

Trivialising the Anzacs

by
May 2014, no. 361

Be warned! The commemorative tsunami is on its way. As James Brown put it recently in Anzac’s Long Shadow (2014), we are now witnessing an Anzac ‘arms race’, as Australians compete to find ‘bigger and better ways to commemorate our sacrificed soldiers’. The bill to the Australian state and federal taxpayers, Brown calculates, will be nearly $325 million. With a further $300 million projected to be raised in private donations, the commemoration of World War I might ultimately cost some two-thirds of a billion dollars.

Joan Beaumont reviews 'Anzac Memories: Living with the legend' by Alistair Thomson

Anzac Memories: Living with the legend, Second edition

by Alistair Thomson

Monash University Publishing, $34.95 pb, 423 pp

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Comment (1)

  • Brilliant and timely review of what seems to be a really significant new edition of an important oral history.
    Posted by Craig Munro
    02 May 2014

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