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'What is taboo in any family or in any society is never fixed. And neither is that body of family information which everybody knows but no one talks about. Mental illness is one such subject, and it created a kind of fence around one central element of Thomson's work in the 1980s - his grandfather Hector's story. He has had the courage to take that fence down and use a range of sources to enter the no man's land of suffering and isolation which was a part of his grandfather's life, and perforce, that of his grandmother and the young child who became his father. When the first edition was in preparation, Alistair Thomson's father objected strenuously to any mention in the book of his father's (Alistair's grandfather's) mental illness; reluctantly Alistair agreed to leave out the subject. We can understand why the author's father, himself a soldier, felt so strongly. ' (Publication summary)
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With a Foreword by Jay Winter
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Originally published: Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-393) and index.
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— Review of Anzac Memories : Living with the Legend 2013 single work biography
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Selling the Anzacs : Masterly Writing on Memory and the Great War
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 361 2014; (p. 50-51)
— Review of Anzac Memories : Living with the Legend 2013 single work biography -
Pasts We Can Live with
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , April vol. 12 no. 1 2015; (p. 257-262)
— Review of Anzac Memories : Living with the Legend 2013 single work biography
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