World War I

The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War and the formation of Australian identity and, on the other hand, Aboriginal narratives of dispossession…

ALS 23.1, with its war-related articles was, for a now 'old' (in more ways than one) Second AIF army man, a most interesting issue. The articles prompt some reflections which may be of interest. They relate to the continued presence…

Sometime during the early 1920s, Lesbia Harford wrote The Invaluable Mystery, a novel which concerns Sally, an urban working-class woman, and her struggle to survive on her own when her German-born father, Mr Putman, and brother, Max, are interned…

Surveys poetry and verse, personal narratives and popular novels written by Australian women about the Great War. Finds as major preoccupations and concerns in this type of literature: fear of threats to their class and race caused by war; fear…

Discusses poems and poets who depicted the experience of women during and after the First World War.

'Lest we forget' is the phrase most commonly evoked by Anzac Day. Lying behind it is a community's desire to repress, put aside, forget. The opposing tendencies to forget, or to remember, have their historical (as well as personal) moments…

THE Official History of Australia in the War of 1914- 1918 provided Australians with an opportunity to assert the significance of their history to an international as well as a domestic audience. C.E.W. Bean, the architect, general editor and principal…

In 1916, Emilio Lussu was fighting with the Sassari brigade on Italy's Austrian front. In his memoirs, written much later, he recalled his war- time reading: Orlando Furioso, Les F/eurs du Mal and a book on birds. In 1916 Lussu…