Cirrus@Austlit

'Australian military history is full of big names that loom large in the public memory of the nation's wartime experiences - Monash, Chauvel, Jacka and Blamey. But what about the others, influential but lesser known army strategists and leaders, who shaped the Australian Army? This book pulls them out of the shadows. The Shadow Men unites some of Australia's best military historians who shed light on ten of these men, intellectuals, strategists and administrators, foregrounding their achievements and influences.' (Publication Summary)

'Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of Australian virtues can thrive. In Anzacs Dirty Dozen a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host of stubborn fantasies and fabrications that obscure the real story. ' (Source: TROVE)

Introduction: The Walking 'Undead' and Australian Military History – 1. The Frontier War that Never Was / John Connor – 2. Breaker Morant: the Murderer as Martyr / Craig Wilcox – 3. The Myths of August at Gallipoli / Rhys Crawley – 4. Australians Broke the Hindenburg Line / Elizabeth Greenhalgh – 5. 'There is an idea that the Australian is a born soldier...' / Craig Stockings – 6. Out in the Midday Sun : The Loss of HMAS Sydney II / Peter Dennis – 7. Dramatic Myth and Dull Truth: Invasion by Japan in 1942 / Peter Stanley – 'Australia's Thermopylae'? The Kokoda Trail / David Stevens – 9. In Every War but One? Myth, History and Vietnam / Jeffrey Grey – 10. Two Tales of Timor / Clinton Fernandes – Epilogue: Returning the Zombies to Their Graves.