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Friday essay: do 'the French' care about Anzac?

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dc.contributor.authorFathi, Romain
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-13T01:52:46Z
dc.date.available2024-09-13T01:52:46Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-12
dc.date.updated2024-04-14T08:16:04Z
dc.description.abstractWhen the first world war came to an end on the Western Front in November 1918, it was time for Australian soldiers to return home. As in Gallipoli, they left behind their fellow Australians who had died. But the Australian public felt less anxiety about the war graves on the Western Front than those in Gallipoli. France was a mostly Christian country, and an Allied nation. Surely, the French would deeply care about the Anzacs? Soon after the war, the Australian government tried to impose the view that Australians had saved the city of Amiens. Canadians, British, French and others were claiming the same, as the Third Battle of Picardy had been an Allied operation... by Romain Fathi, Flinders University / Sciences Po, Centre d'histoire
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2201-5639
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733716446
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherThe Conversation
dc.rights© 2019 The Conversation
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.sourceThe Conversation
dc.titleFriday essay: do 'the French' care about Anzac?
dc.typeBlog post
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
local.contributor.affiliationFathi, Romain, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidFathi, Romain, u5085663
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor430302 - Australian history
local.identifier.ariespublicationu1066051xPUB65
local.publisher.urlhttps://theconversation.com/friday-essay-do-the-french-care-about-anzac
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