Gates of Memory: Aust Exper Great War

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The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War

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Media: BOOK - paperback, 304 pages
Author: T. Luckins
Year: 2004
Other Data: b&w photos, bibliog, index
ISBN: 1920731741

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Product Code: FAC004

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Much has been written on the Anzac legend and the 60,000 Australians who lost their lives in the Great War, but little has been said about the hundreds of thousands who were left to grieve for their loved ones, denied bodies over which to mourn.

'The Gates of Memory' is a fresh, beautifully written and provocative cultural history that explores the meanings, for ordinary Australians, of loss and memory during the Great War, and of the succeeding generations who lived with the memories of these losses.

Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Unknown Bereaved

Part 1. Loss 1914-1918
1. A Cruel Purgatory
2. The Woman in Black
3. Lamentations
4. Losing Memory

Part 2. Memory: The Postwar Years
5. Landscapes of the Dead
6. The Gates of Memory
7. The Tableau Turns
8. Collecting Memories
9. Generations

Notes
Bibliography
Index