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Charles Bean Book

Charles Bean Book

by Matthew Condon
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2020

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A novel about the beginning of the Anzac myth told through the eyes of Charles Bean, the First World War historian.

In 1919 Australia's official war correspondent Charles Bean returned to Gallipoli to gather artefacts from the famous Anzac Cove skirmish and bring them back to Australia. He discovered a wealth of material, from weapons to bullets to boats to the skeletons of the dead. It was a massive undertaking, and Bean recorded the experience in his book Gallipoli Mission.

Condon's novel examines Bean's journey and his intention to retrieve the material for what would ultimately become the Australian War Memorial. It was during this mission that Bean was in fact assembling the foundations of the Anzac myth, which pervades more than ever to this day.
ISBN:
9781741666359
9781741666359
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2020
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
1x1x1mm
Weight:
0kg
Matthew Condon

Matthew Condon is a prize-winning Australian novelist and journalist. He is currently on staff with the Courier-Mail's Qweekend magazine. He began his journalism career with the Gold Coast Bulletin in 1984 and subsequently worked for leading newspapers and journals including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sun-Herald and Melbourne's Sunday Age.

He is also the author of ten books of fiction, most recently The Trout Opera (Random House, 2007) and the non-fiction books Brisbane (New South Books, 2010), as well as Three Crooked Kings (UQP, 2013), Jacks and Jokers (UQP, 2014), and All Fall Down (2015), his best-selling trilogy about Queensland crime and corruption.

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