Making the legend : the war writings of C.E.W. Bean / selected by Denis Winter
- Bib ID:
- 544437
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), 1879-1968
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1992
- xii, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0702223980 (paperback)
- Series:
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- UQP paperbacks.
- UQP nonfiction.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Illustrations ix
- Preface xi
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Formation of the AIF, 1914 19
- The first days 20
- Territorial structure 22
- Commanding officer subdivisions 23
- Distinctive appearance 23
- Generous pay scales 24
- Training at Mena 26
- The bonding process at work in Egypt 27
- William Birdwood, commander of the Anzac Corps 29
- Bean's private reservations about Birdwood 30
- 3 Gallipoli, 1915 32
- Approaching the Gallipoli Coast 33
- The Landing 33
- Advancing from the beach 38
- Derham's advance 40
- The defenders of Pine Ridge 44
- The first relief 45
- The battle of Krithia 47
- A character sketch of William Bridges 52
- The Turkish offensive 54
- Simpson 57
- Life in the trenches on Gallipoli 59
- Quinn's Post 61
- Maurice Hankey's opinion 63
- The condition of the troops 64
- The Light Horse prepare for assault 66
- Charge of the Light Horse at the Nek 67
- Lone Pine 72
- Evacuation 76
- 4 Apprenticeship on the Western Front 77
- Arrival in France 77
- Learning about the front line 79
- Patrolling no man's land 82
- Trench raids 83
- Bean's diary record of the episode 84
- Out of the line after a spell of trench duty 85
- 5 Fromelles and the Somme, 1916 87
- Fromelles - flawed decision making 89
- "The first assault at Fromelles 91
- The "truce" at Fromelles 94
- The day after the battle 97
- Fromelles battlefield two years later 98
- Bean's private accounts of the Pozieres period 100
- The shelling of Australian troops at Pozieres 102
- Jacka's counter-attack 104
- The grenade fight at Munster Alley 106
- Bean's assessment of the fighting at Pozieres 108
- The battle at Flers 110
- Postscript to the battle at Flers 115
- The condition of the AIF after the Somme battle 115
- 6 Realities of battle 117
- Going forward to the front line 118
- Waiting for the signal to attack 119
- Assault behind a creeping barrage 119
- Assault without artillery cover 120
- Short shooting 121
- An advance repulsed 122
- The two front lines collide 124
- Stillness in the wake of an assault 125
- Captives 126
- Coming out of battle 128
- Death in battle 131
- The death of Bean s cousin 132
- Lament for dear friends 133
- 7 The toll of battle 135
- Signs of combat fatigue 135
- Breaking under the strain 137
- On first realising the odds against survival 139
- "The bonds of comradeship 140
- The routine of discipline, 1918 141
- Loyalty among individuals 142
- Loyalty to the battalion 143
- Cameos of leadership 146
- Meysey Hammond 148
- Captain Littler 150
- "Rest" 154
- Leave 154
- The tonic of open warfare 155
- Curiosity 156
- Brudenell White at issue with Bean 157
- Bean's letter to Raws' commanding officer 157
- Captain Short' s reply 158
- 8 Bullecourt and Passchendaele, 1917 161
- The first battle of Bullecourt 162
- White's comment on the decision to attack 165
- 1st Bullecourt - the Australians attack 166
- Australian POWs, 1st Bullecourt 169
- Bean's assessment of 1st Bullecourt 174
- White's protest at British handling 177
- The second battle of Bullecourt 178
- Bean' s assessment of his 2nd Bullecourt account 182
- Gellibrand's reaction to vol. 4, Official History 183
- Attack on Broodseinde Ridge 184
- A losing race with the weather 186
- The story of Passchendaele in letters 187
- " Missing in action" 190
- Pillbox fighting in the Ypres Salient 190
- Coming out of the line at Passchendaele 192
- 9 1918: The 1st AIF's finest
- achievements 193
- The period of panic, March-April 1918 193
- McDougall's fight at Dernancourt 195
- The Australian offensive at Morlancourt 200
- The Australian offensive at Hangard Wood 202
- The "sleepy raid" 206
- VC won by "peaceful penetration" 209
- Bean on Monash in the Official History 211
- Bean on Monash in private correspondence 212
- Bean on Monash, a typical diary entry 213
- Instructions to battalion patrols 214
- Meticulous reconnaissance, Villers Bretonneux 215
- Conferences before the battle of Hamel 218
- A comment from the 27th (American) Division 220
- The increasing efficiency of the AIF 221
- The objective of Mont St St Quentin 222
- The attack on Mont St Quentin 222
- Bean's assessment of Mont St Quentin attack 224
- The storming of the Hindenburg Outpost Line 225
- Bean's reflections when the AIF was withdrawn 226
- The AIF demobilises 227
- The Anzac Day tradition 229
- 10 The Diggers 230
- "A criticism of the Official History 230
- "A battalion "at rest" 231
- Bean's view of the Digger in 1916 236
- Bean's view of the Digger in 1930 236
- Two heroes 237
- Accidental heroism 238
- Typical Digger references in Bean's writing 239
- Notes 244.
- Notes:
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- A selection of the best of Bean's writings, from all stages of his career.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-246)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Winter, Denis
- Copyright:
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