Bearing witness : the remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia's greatest war correspondent /

"Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the head of the most influential figure in Australia's military history. Rees's superb book shows how Bean bore witness to Australia's Great War."--Professor Peter Stanley 'Part...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rees, Peter, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Crows Nest, N.S.W.] : Allen & Unwin, 2015.
Temas:
Bean, C. E. W. > (Charles Edwin Woodrow), > 1879-1968.
Bean, C. E. W. > (Charles Edwin Woodrow), > 1879-1968
1914-1918
War correspondents > Australia > Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Journalists > Biography.
Historians > Australia > Biography.
Correspondants de guerre > Australie > Biographies.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Journalistes > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Historians
Journalists
War correspondents
Australia
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; About the author; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; Dedication; PREFACE; PROLOGUE; Part One: The Early Years; 1 Here, My Son; 2 Waterloo; 3 Tempering steel; 4 Moral stance; 5 The lure of the pen; 6 Seeds of the myth; 7 The cub; 8 The Sydney passenger; 9 Moral certainty; 10 Agent of change; Part Two: The War Years; 11 The booted heel; 12 A hell of a time; 13 Play the game; 14 Digging in; 15 Sideshow; 16 Boosting a reputation; 17 The non-combatant; 18 Brothers in arms; 19 General failure; 20 The workhorse and the gadfly; 21 A question of discipline; 22 Counting the bullets; 23 A new prism
  • 24 A monumental folly25 The giant mincing machine; 26 The war gets personal; 27 No way out; 28 Good will not come of it; 29 Self doubt; 30 British impetuosity; 31 Bean does a Murdoch; 32 A change of focus; 33 Cultural stereotyping; 34 The juggler; 35 War on a different front; 36 An assessment of character; 37 An ill-judged intervention; 38 And so it is peace; Part Three: After the nightmare; 39 The bush backwater; 40 The Nipper; 41 Bluff and double bluff; 42 Censorship, tragedy and farce; 43 In his own hands; 44 The ghastly spectre; 45 The straight line; 46 About turn
  • 47 Back among old DiggersEpilogue; Pic section; Notes; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; Acknowledgements; Index

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