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Peter Stanley

Peter Stanley is one of Australia’s best-known military historians. Recently retired as Research Professor at UNSW Canberra, he was the Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, where he worked from 1980 to 2007. Peter is the author of more than forty books, including Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the AIF, which jointly won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History in 2011. For NewSouth he’s published Lost Boys of Anzac (2011), Armenia, Australia & the Great War (with Vicken Babkenian, 2016) and Charles Bean: Man, myth, legacy (editor, 2017).

Peter in Fort William 27 Oct 2023

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Lost Boys of Anzac

Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?

Armenia, Australia & the Great War

Peter Stanley, Vicken Babkenian

Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide.

Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book

9781761170140

Beyond the Broken Years: Australian military history in 1000 books

Leading historian Peter Stanley traces the history of Australia’s military history in 1000 books that reveal the many facets of our continuing fascination with our military past.