CONTENTS

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Author’s Note

Foreword by Dr Brendan Nelson, Australian War Memorial

Introduction: The Soul of Our Nation

Maps

PART I October 1888–August 1917

1. The Flickering Film

2. You and Your Camera are Cursed

3. One Gigantic Holiday

4. A Little World of Our Own

5. The Nearness of the Creator

6. The World’s Affairs

PART II August 1917–June 1919

7. An Historical Point of View

8. Charley Bean and I

9. Dash In, Get Photographs

10. I Do Not Carry Arms for Fighting

11. The Perfume of Apple and Cherry Blossoms

12. A Garden of Eden

13. The Enemies of All Mankind

14. The Next Steps Towards Civilisation

PART III June 1919–The Present

15. The Value of Getting the History

16. Some Day Australia Will Understand

17. The Body the World Knows as Wilkins

Afterword: We Wielders of the Mechanism

Appendix: A Letter From the Front

Military Formations and Acronyms

Bibliography

Notes

Acknowledgements