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Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obes by James Brown
ISBN: 9781863956390 PUBLISHER: Black Inc. FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLICATION DATE: 3.02.2014 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX10mm 195grams
DESCRIPTION: 'This year an Anzac orgy begins. A commemorative program that would make the pharaohs envious. But commemorating soldiers is not the same as connecting with them ...' - James Brown, Anzac's Long Shadow. In Anzac's Long Shadow, James Brown, a former army officer and brilliant young thinker, describes how Australia is investing too much time, money and emotion in the Anzac legend. He argues that when a legend comes to dominate reality, there is always a price to pay. He shows that Australians spend a lot more time looking after dead soldiers than those who are alive. We focus on a cult of remembrance, instead of understanding a new world of soldiering and strategy. And we make it impossible to criticise the Australian Defence Force, even when it makes recurrent mistakes. None of this is good for our soldiers or our ability to contend with a changing world. With respect and passion, Brown shines a light on Anzac's long shadow and calls for change. 'Anzac has become our longest eulogy, our secular sacred, our national story. A day where our myth-making paints glory and honour so thickly on the military that it almost suffocates them. But look closer and you'll find the servicemen and women increasingly standing to the side. Those who have fought fiercest in Uruzgan's green valleys forgo their uniforms more often than not. They don't want honour that rides with hubris. Or glory bestowed by a society that fetishises war bu
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