Shattered ANZACs
By: Marina Larsson (570.12/36102)
Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 9781921410550
"Shattered ANZACs' opens our eyes to the experiences of men disabled by the First World War – 90,000 of them, far more than the 60,000 dead. With compassion and a scrupulous eye, Marina Larsson explores the impact of war disability on the lives of soldiers and their kin, and reveals the awful burden of the Anzac legend on men no longer able to embody the ideal of ‘manly independence’. Eloquently and intimately, she knows us how families bore the brunt of returned soldiers’ physical and mental impairment year after year." - Ken Inglis
April 2009