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Charles Bean / Ross Coulthart.

On the eve of the centenary of Gallipoli, Ross Coulthart tells the real story of the iconic Australian war correspondent. CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipoli and the battlefields of western Europe. In his quest to get the truth, Bean often faced death beside the Diggers in the trenches of Gallipoli and the Western Front - and saw more combat than many. But did Bean tell Australia the whole story of what he knew? In this fresh new biography Ross Coulthart explores the man behind the legend.

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C9008091144 A920 BEA
Adult nonfiction   Earlville Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9780732297879
Dewey A920
Author Coulthart, Ross author.
Title Charles Bean / Ross Coulthart.
Published Sydney, NSW : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.
Physical description xxvi, 436 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents note 1. Play up and play the game! -- 2. To set the cause above renown -- 3. The plain, unvarnished truth -- 4. The most interesting operation in the war -- 5. Come on Australians -- 6. The destinies of empires -- 7. Sheer bloody murder -- 8. The public can never know it -- 9. Exaggerating successes and minimising reverses -- 10. A bloody holocaust -- 11. Why should you people back home not know? -- 12. A deceit on the Australian poeple -- 13. Utterly sick of the war -- 14. A finite reserve of courage -- 15. A great bloody experiment -- 16. A lack of virility -- 17. The greatest individual feat of the war -- 18. The black day of the German army -- 19. Put a little more glory into it -- 20. They gave their shining youth -- 21. Nothing can alter now.
Summary On the eve of the centenary of Gallipoli, Ross Coulthart tells the real story of the iconic Australian war correspondent. CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipoli and the battlefields of western Europe. In his quest to get the truth, Bean often faced death beside the Diggers in the trenches of Gallipoli and the Western Front - and saw more combat than many. But did Bean tell Australia the whole story of what he knew? In this fresh new biography Ross Coulthart explores the man behind the legend.
Subject Bean, C. E. W.(Charles Edwin Woodrow),1879-1968
World War, 1914-1918
Historians -- Australia -- Biography
War correspondents -- Australia -- Biography
World War, 1914-1918 -- Journalists -- Biography
Australia
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