Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War
Allen & Unwin, $55 hb, 656 pp, 9781741751383
Military History
Cruel indeed
by Marilyn Lake •
If you read only one book about Australia’s experience of World War I, as the deluge of commemorative publications marking the outbreak of the war becomes a veritable tsunami, make it Broken Nation, an account that joins the history of the war to the home front, and that details the barbarism of the battlefields as well as the desolation, despair, and bitter divisions that devastated the communities left behind.
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