Remembering the war: Australian novelists in the interwar years.(Essay)

From: Australian Literary Studies | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

AMONGST the sombre records of war in the stacks at the Australian War Memorial, a couple of bays of shelves stand out, filled with colourful books with equally colourful titles: Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Flesh in Armour, The Turkish Spy. These are Australian war novels, collected despite Charles Bean's opinion that the Memorial should limit itself to providing sources for the official histories and future historians: 'Novels etc. with a war flavour [...] would simply be collected to be stacked in cellars and eaten by silverfish.' (1) But the novels are there, nonetheless, ...

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