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Bearing witness / Peter Rees.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rees, Peter, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), 1879-1968.
- Bean, C. E. W.
- War correspondents--Australia--Biography.
- War correspondents.
- World War, 1914-1918--Journalists--Biography.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Historians--Australia--Biography.
- Historians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 548 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2015.
- Summary:
- A full biography of the man known as CEW Bean - war correspondent and official historian of World War I - that for the first time captures and portrays the essence of the man, his work, his influence on Australian history, and how Australians have seen themselves in the century since the Great War.
- Contents:
- Cover
- About the author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- PROLOGUE
- Part One: The Early Years
- 1 Here, My Son
- 2 Waterloo
- 3 Tempering steel
- 4 Moral stance
- 5 The lure of the pen
- 6 Seeds of the myth
- 7 The cub
- 8 The Sydney passenger
- 9 Moral certainty
- 10 Agent of change
- Part Two: The War Years
- 11 The booted heel
- 12 A hell of a time
- 13 Play the game
- 14 Digging in
- 15 Sideshow
- 16 Boosting a reputation
- 17 The non-combatant
- 18 Brothers in arms
- 19 General failure
- 20 The workhorse and the gadfly
- 21 A question of discipline
- 22 Counting the bullets
- 23 A new prism
- 24 A monumental folly
- 25 The giant mincing machine
- 26 The war gets personal
- 27 No way out
- 28 Good will not come of it
- 29 Self doubt
- 30 British impetuosity
- 31 Bean does a Murdoch
- 32 A change of focus
- 33 Cultural stereotyping
- 34 The juggler
- 35 War on a different front
- 36 An assessment of character
- 37 An ill-judged intervention
- 38 And so it is peace
- Part Three: After the nightmare
- 39 The bush backwater
- 40 The Nipper
- 41 Bluff and double bluff
- 42 Censorship, tragedy and farce
- 43 In his own hands
- 44 The ghastly spectre
- 45 The straight line
- 46 About turn
- 47 Back among old Diggers
- Epilogue
- Pic section
- Notes
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Acknowledgements
- Index.
- Notes:
- "Remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia's greatest war correspondent"--Cover.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-74269-786-0
- OCLC:
- 915325789
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