@article{920350,
      recid = {920350},
      author = {Beaumont, Joan,},
      title = {Broken nation : Australians in the Great War /},
      pages = {1 online resource (657 pages) :},
      abstract = {The Australian experience of war in all its complexity -  from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men  and women who experienced it chose to understand and  remember it. The Great War is, for many Australians, the  event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench  warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff  of the Anzac legend. But it was also a war fought by the  families at home. Their resilience in the face of hardship,  their stoic acceptance of enormous casualty lists and their  belief that their cause was just, made the war effort  possible. This book brings together all the dimensions of  World War I. Combining deep scholarship with powerful  storytelling, this book brings the war years to life: from  the well-known battles at Gallipoli, Pozieres, Fromelles  and Villers-Bretonneux, to the lesser known battles in  Europe and the Middle East; from the ferocious debates over  conscription to the disillusioning Paris peace conference  and the devastating Spanish flu the soldiers brought home.  We witness the fear and courage of tens of thousands of  soldiers, grapple with the strategic nightmares confronting  the commanders, and come to understand the impact on  Australians, at home and at the front, of death on an  unprecedented scale. A century after the Great War, this  book brings lucid insight into the dramatic events, mass  grief and political turmoil that makes the memory of this  terrible war central to Australia's history.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/920350},
}