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'The man who first imagined the Australian War Memorial was also active in the creation of another key institution'

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    y separately published work icon Charles Bean - Man, Myth, Legacy Peter Stanley (editor), Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2017 11623724 2017 anthology biography essay criticism

    '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 criticised 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 - including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings - analyse the man, the myth and his long-reaching legacy. 

    'Contributors include Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings.'  (Publication summary)

         Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2017     pg. 62-76
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    y separately published work icon Inside Story October 2017 12548189 2017 periodical issue 2017
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y separately published work icon Charles Bean - Man, Myth, Legacy Peter Stanley (editor), Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2017 11623724 2017 anthology biography essay criticism

'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 criticised 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 - including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings - analyse the man, the myth and his long-reaching legacy. 

'Contributors include Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings.'  (Publication summary)
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