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Controversial, opinionated and confronting, this book challenges a number of time-honoured and perceived 'truths' of Australian military history and attempts to correct the historical record.;Introduction: The walking 'undead' and Australian military history -- 1. The frontier war that never was / John Connor -- 2. Breaker Morant: the murderer as martyr / Craig Wilcox -- 3. The myths of August at Gallipoli / Rhys Crawley -- 4. Australians broke the Hindenburg Line / Elizabeth Greenhalgh -- 5. 'There is an idea that the Australian is a born soldier...' / Craig Stockings -- 6. Out in the midday sun : the loss of HMAS Sydney II / Peter Dennis -- 7. Dramatic myth and dull truth: invasion by Japan in 1942 / Peter Stanley -- 'Australia's Thermopylae'? The Kokoda Trail / David Stevens -- 9. In every war but one? Myth, history and Vietnam / Jeffrey Grey -- 10. Two tales of Timor / Clinton Fernandes -- Epilogue: returning the zombies to their graves.
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