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Reading List of Sources about the ANZAC Spirit
The following sources provide useful insights into how its meanings have been expressed in the years since the evacuation of Gallipoli. Note that the Memorial does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in these sources. They reflect a range of opinions and views.
Readings
Entry 'ANZAC legend' from Joan Beaumont, Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics, Melbourne, 2001
Entries on 'ANZAC', 'ANZAC Day' and 'ANZAC Legend' from Graeme Davison and others, The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Melbourne, 1998
Entries on 'ANZAC Day' and 'ANZAC legend' from Peter Dennis and others, The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, Melbourne, 1995
Peter Stanley, 'Reflections on Bean's last paragraph', Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia, (Jul-Sep 1983), pp. 4-11
Bruce Topperwein, 'The word "ANZAC", Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia, Jul-Sep 1997, pp. 33-36
Extract on Digger Dialects' from Peter Stanley, A Guide to the Australian War Memorial, Sydney, 1986
Books
J.M. Arthur & W.H. Ramson (eds), W.H. Downing's Digger Dialects, Melbourne, 1990
C.E.W. Bean, The ANZAC Book, London, 1916
Di Bourke (ed.), ANZAC Day: Traditions, Facts and Folklore, Brisbane, 2000
Georgina Fitzpatrick, ANZAC Day: Past and Present, Canberra, 1992
Ken Inglis, Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Melbourne, 1998
John Lack (ed.), ANZAC Remembered, Melbourne, 1998
Michael McKernan & Peter Stanley, ANZAC Day: Seventy Years On, Sydney, 1986
John Robertson, ANZAC and Empire, Melbourne, 1990
Jane Ross, The Myth of the Digger, Sydney, 1985
Seumas Spark, ANZAC: A Modern Tradition?: ANZAC Day in Melbourne 1946 and 2000, Melbourne, 2001
Alistair Thomson, ANZAC Memories: Living with the Legend, Melbourne, 1994
Articles
John Barrett, 'The study of ANZAC', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 16 (1990), p. 54 (Volume 16 of the Journal of the Australian War Memorial was devoted to a discussion of the ANZAC legend)
Joan Beaumont, 'The ANZAC legend' in Joan Beaumont (ed.), Australia's war 1914-1918, St Leonards, NSW, 1995, p. 149
Peter Burness, 'A is for ANZAC', Journal of the Australian War Memorial , 16 (1990), p. 76
Peter Cochrane, 'Deliverance and renewal: the origins of the Simpson legend', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 16 (1990), p. 18
Bill Gammage, 'ANZAC's influence on Turkey and Australia ', Journal of the Australian War Memorial , 18 (1991), p.13
Ken Inglis, 'ANZAC today', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 16 (1990), p. 53.
Marilyn Lake , 'The Power of ANZAC', in Michael McKernan & Margaret Browne (eds), Australia Two Centuries of War and Peace, Canberra, 1998
Geoff Page, 'Some problems with ANZAC', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 16 (1990), p. 56
Jane Ross, 'The myth of ANZAC', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 16 (1990) 55
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