Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918 [the complete twelve-volume set]
by BEAN, Charles Edwin Woodrow (and others)
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- Hardcover
- first
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In Australian historical writing nothing had ever been done on such a scale; and there had been no military history anywhere quite like Bean's.... [He] brought a democratic and colonial scepticism to bear on the assumption that the dispatches of high commanders were the best source of information about what actually happened when men went into battle. His own diaries (226 note-books) were full of the evidence about "what actual experiences, at the point where men lay out behind hedges or on the fringe of woods, caused those on one side to creep, walk, or run forward, and the others to go back".
Bean's approach differed from that of the British war historians, whose work was official not only in sponsorship but in texture: history written by generals, not by an honorary captain. The British volumes had no biographical footnotes of the sort that were essential to Bean's method because he wanted to show that the participants were "a fair cross-section of our people ... that the company commander was a young lawyer and his second in command and most trusted mate a young engine driver and so on"' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
Dornbusch 209 (the complete set), 353 (Volumes 1 and 2), 294-297 (Volumes 3-6), 374 (Volume 10), 219 (Volume 11) and 223 (Volume 12); Fielding and O'Neill, page 208 (the complete set); Trigellis-Smith 725-36 (the complete set). Dornbusch provides useful information about dates of reprints and revised editions. For the record, the edition and publication date of the volumes in this set are (in order of volume number) 3/34; 2/34; 2/34; 3/35; 3/38; 1/42; 3/36; 3/34; 2/35; 2/34; 3/38; and 4/35. [12 items].
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136704
- Title
- Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918 [the complete twelve-volume set]
- Author
- BEAN, Charles Edwin Woodrow (and others)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1934
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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