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Australian Books

Letting go

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

Anzac’s Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obsession James Brown

Redback, pp.160, $19.99, ISBN: 9781863956390

We are not, by our nature, a militaristic people, and it is significant that our most well-known military venture was a defeat. But somehow or other, the Gallipoli story and the Anzac idea have come to dominate large sections of public debate in Australia, and while recognition for veterans is a worthy undertaking the consequences for the larger picture are problematic, even dangerous.

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