Australia's War 1914-18

<p><i>Australia's War 1914-18</i> explores Australia's involvement in the First World War and the effect this had on the nation' s society. In this very accessible book Joan Beaumont Pam Maclean Marnie Haig-Muir and David Lowe focus on: where Australians fought and why; the tensions and realignments within Australian politics in the period of 1914-18; the stresses of the war on Australian society especially on women and those whom wartime hysteria cast in the role of the 'enemy' at home; the impact of the war on the country's economy; the role played by Australia in international diplomacy; and finally the creation and influence of the Anzac legend.<br><br>Once dominated by the battlefield and official accounts of the war correspondent and official historian C.E.W. Bean Australian writing on the war has acquired a new depth and sophistication. Studies of the home front reveal a society riven by divisions without precedent in the nation's history.<br><br>This single volume will be invaluable to tertiary students and of enormous interest to the reader concerned with the social political and military history of Australia.</p>