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Craig Stockings
ANZAC’s Dirty Dozen [PDF ebook]
12 Myths of Australian Military History

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Australian military history is a landscape of legends, yet across the length and breadth of military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealization of Australian virtues can thrive. In this book, a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and fabrications that obscure the real story. Confronting and clear-eyed, it goes beyond the indulgent, politi...

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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9781742245782 ● Editor Craig Stockings ● Editura University of New South Wales Press ● Publicat 2012 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 8072901 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM

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