Bill Gammage
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Bill Gammage (born 1942) is an Australian academic historian, Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Center of Australian National University. He was born in Wagga Wagga, went to Wagga High School and then to the Australian National University.[1] He was on the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Adelaide, He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and deputy chair of the National Museum of Australia..
He is perhaps best known for his book The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War which he wrote in 1974. He has written several other books about the experiences of soldiers in the First World War.
Gammage is currently the Adjunct Professor at the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU, and s
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[edit] Major Books
- The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War (Penguin Australia, 1974) ISBN 0-14-003383-1
- The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939 (Melbourne University, 1998) ISBN 0522848273
[edit] Periodical articles
- ANZAC's influence on Turkey and Australia. Journal of the Australian War Memorial.: 1991,18; Presented as a keynote address at the 1990 Australian War Memorial history conference
- "Oral and Written Sources." In Oral Tradition in Melanesia. Ed. by Donald Denoon. Port Moresby, New Guinea: University of Papua, New Guinea and Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. pp. 115-24.
- "My Gun, My Brother. the World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police 1920-1960" Oceania, Vol. 70, 1999.
[edit] Other works
- "Sir John Monash : a military review" (Melbourne University, 1974)
- "The story of Gallipoli" / text by Bill Gammage ; screenplay by David Williamson ; preface by Peter Weir. Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Australia 1981) Released August 1981 as "Gallipoli.", dir. by Peter Weir
[edit] References
- ^ Professor Bill Gammage (Australian National University) Accessed: February 5, 2007.
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[edit] External Links
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ worldwars/wwone/australia_04.shtml Australia in World War One
By Dr Peter Stanley] "Bill Gammage, whose 1974 book The Broken Years did so much to renew interest in the Great War in Australia,..."
- Interview with Gamage on ABC International about sport in the Australian Army in W.W. I & II.
- Conference paper by John Carnahan "Bill Gammage's classical study of the history of Narrandera Shire"
- Asia-Pacific Viewpoint Review of The Sky-Travellers
- Murdoch Univ. film database entry on Gallipoli – 1981
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| NAME | Gammage, Bill |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Australian Professor of History |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia |
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