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Lest reclaims the truth about our military history Lest Australian War MythsSorry I get that all views of history need to be shown and it s important that falsehoods need to be exposed But this is just tawdry The only chapter I thought worthwhile was the one on LGBTIQA Service personal. Lestovka Rarely rate a book less than three stars I was feeling generous giving 2 1761108077 Great read and a must if you want to really understand the Australian History during WWI and WWII 1761108077 This was such an interesting listen I found this book via LibroFM I d never have found it otherwise The author is an Australian journalist who.

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Mark Dapin is the author of the novels King of the Cross and Spirit House King of the Cross won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and Spirit House was long listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year and the Royal Society for Literatures Ondaatje Prize His recent work of military history The Nashos War has been widely acclaimed He is a PhD candidate at the Australian Defence Force Academy Mark Dapin is the author of the novels King of the Cross and Spirit House King of the Cross won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and Spirit House was long listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year and the Royal Society for Literature s Ondaatje Prize His recent work of military history The Nashos War has been widely acclaimed He is a PhD candidate at the Australian Defence Force Academy site_link From Simpson s donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts Smith Australian military history is full of events that didn t happen the way most people think they did In his inimitable style award winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight Australia s war tales could be said to be the closest thing we have to sacred ANZAC Simpson and his donkey Changi the wronged diggers in Vietnam Ben Roberts Smith Millions of dollars are spent enshrining these stories in the War Memorial in Canberra and the Australian National Memorial in France amongst others But did what we re celebrating actually happen In this book award winning author and historian Mark Dapin shows that often the reality was completely different from the myth and that by celebrating the wrong people we often forget about the real heroes With deep research and a sharp wit in this book digs into the various myths of the glories of ANZAC He tells the real story or the rest of the story for each He makes the experience a lot of fun quiet irony written with a wink and a grin 1761108077 Mark Twain said never let the truth get in the way of a good story and so it would seem for some of the stories that have been told about Australia and the involvement of the Country in various military campaigns What I found interesting in this book was the way in which people remember events and how they can be changed by the influence of feature films television or media reporting 1761108077