Charles Bean: Man, Myth, Legacy

by Peter Stanley

Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticized for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book , Bean was also a public servant, institutional leader, author, activist, thinker, doer, philosopher, and polemicist. In Charles Bean, Man, myth, legacy, Australia's top military historians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742234895
• ISBN13: 9781742234892
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"