Challenging Anzac: Stories That Don't Fit the Legend (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781761170706)

Joan Beaumont is an internationally recognised historian of Australia in the two world wars, Australian defence and foreign policy, the history of prisoners of war and the memory and heritage of war. Her publications include the critically acclaimed Broken Nation: Australians and the Great War, Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australia' s, war, defence and citizenship and Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941- 45. Mia Martin Hobbs is an oral historian of war and conflict, with a research focus on the Vietnam War, War on Terror, gender, peace, security, and post-war reconciliation. Her first book, Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans' Journeys, won the Oral History Australia Book Award in 2022. She has written on anti-war activism among US veterans in Journal of American History and the impact of the Anzac Revival on Australian veterans' war memory in Australian Journal of Politics & History. She is presently undertaking an oral history with women and minority veterans. Carolyn Holbrook is the Director of Australian Policy and History. Carolyn's books include Anzac: The unauthorised biography, The Great War: Aftermath and commemoration, edited with Keir Reeves, and Lessons from History: Leading historians tackle Australia's greatest challenges, co-edited with Lyndon Megarrity and David Lowe.