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[US & CA version]. |
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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- About This Book -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Plates -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Introduction: A Salient Question -- Writing about Memory -- A Brief History of the Australians in the Ypres Salient -- A Century of Remembering Messines and Third Ypres -- Chapter 1 Bean's Belgium -- Bean's Public and Private War -- Bean in Belgium -- Official History -- Chapter 2 Displaying the Ypres Salient -- The Australian War Memorial Museum and Memory -- The Hunt for Relics -- The Salient in Three Dimensions -- The Salient in Two Dimensions |
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Menin Gate at Midnight -- Chapter 3 Belgium Imagined -- Reviewing the War -- For the Glory of the Unit and the Fallen -- The Returned Remember -- Elegies of 'Mud, Blood and Darkness' -- Postwar Polemics -- Image Block -- Chapter 4 Belgium Experienced -- Australia and the Postwar Belgian Landscape -- Bereaved Pilgrims and Solemn Sightseers -- Official Representatives of the Bereaved -- Returning to the Battlefields -- Chapter 5 Dead Trees and Withering Memories -- Anzac and Another World War -- Fading Fast -- On the Verge of Oblivion -- Origins of a Belgian Anzac Tradition |
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Reinventing a Tradition -- Anzacs on Screen -- Chapter 6 Lost in a Surfeit of Memory -- A Past Australians Could Live With -- A Tale of Two Returns -- Importing the Last Post -- From the Bottom Up -- Beneath Hill 60 -- Returning to Flanders Fields -- A Corner of a Foreign Exhibition -- Epilogue -- The Biggest Stunt in a Century -- An Abortive Conclusion to a Bloody Battle -- Notes -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Bean's Belgium -- Chapter 2: Displaying the Ypres Salient -- Chapter 3: Belgium Imagined -- Chapter 4: Belgium Experienced -- Chapter 5: Dead Trees and Withering Memories |
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Chapter 6: Lost in a Surfeit of Memory -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Australian War Memorial, Canberra (AWM) -- Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Maidenhead (CWGC) -- In Flanders Fields Museum Research Centre, Ypres (IFFM) -- National Archives of Australia, Canberra (NAA) -- National Library of Australia, Canberra (NLA) -- Stadsarchief Ieper, Ypres (SI) -- Other Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres - now known as Passchendaele - in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) infantry divisions were engaged in this bloody campaign. Despite early successes, their attacks floundered in front of the devastated Belgian Passchendaele's when autumn rains drenched the battlefield, turning it into an immense quagmire. By the time the AIF withdrew, it had suffered more casualties over 38,000 casualties, including 10,000 dead, far outweighing Australian losses in any other Great War campaign. Given the extent of their sacrifices, the Australians' exploits in Belgium ought to be well known in a nation that has fervently commemorated its involvement in the First World War. Yet, Passchendaele occupies an ambiguous place in Australian collective memory. Tracing the commemorative work of official and non-official agents--including that of C.E.W. Bean; the Australian War Memorial; returned soldiers; battlefield pilgrims; and, more recently, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, working in collaboration with Belgian locals-- The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory explores why these battles became, and still remain, peripheral to the dominant First World War narrative in Australia: the Anzac legend. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- History.
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Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. |
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History. |
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Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917.
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Battle of Ypres (3rd) (Ieper, Belgium : 1917) |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Belgium.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain.
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Military campaigns. |
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Regimental histories. |
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Great Britain. |
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Belgium -- Ieper. |
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Belgium. |
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World War (1914-1918) |
| Chronological Term |
1914-1918 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9781922464071 (electronic book) |
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1922464074 (electronic book) |
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