What happens when wars end and the fighting men and women return? Anzac Legacies explores the difficulties that returning soldiers have faced – from the ‘broken’ Anzacs of 1914–18 to service personnel recently deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. It traces the physical and mental cost of war and considers how veterans, governments and families have responded to the significant emotional, social and financial demands on them.
Featuring the work of leading historians and Australian Defence Force psychologists, this book offers new perspectives on how Australians have lived with, and continue to live with, the legacies of war. Importantly, it demonstrates how the wars of the last century have had an enduring impact on generations of Australians well beyond the end of battlefield conflict.
Contents:
List of illustrations
Contrubutors
Introduction: The many faces of return
Broken soldiers and their carers
1. 'Fated to a life of suffering': Graythwaite, the Australian Red Cross and returned soldiers 1916-39
2. 'The part we do not seee': Disabled Australian soldiers and family caregiving after World War I
3. Long time coming home: The 'unknown patient' of Callan Park
Bringing the war back home
4. The teo world wars and the remaking of Australian sexuality
5. 'A wife, a baby and a new Holden car': Family life after captivity
6. Australia's Vietnam veterans and the legacies of a lost war
Repair and reparation
7. The reconstruction of Villers Bretonneux 1918-22
8. The Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia 1916-46
9. 'Matters still outstanding': Australian ex-POWs of the Japanese and claims for reparations
Returning now
10. Finding the missing of Fromellesd: When soldierrs return
11. The evolution combat stress: New challenges for a new generation of Anzacs
12. Postdeployment transition challenges for the modern Anzac veteran
