Table of Contents

• Foreword by Anne Carroll OAM
• Introduction by Peter Stanley
• Part 1 Charles Bean: Life and Work
• Finding the man? Beginning the search for Charles Bean — Stephen Ellis
• Charles Bean on the Western Front — Peter Burness
• Bean at Tuggeranong — Jennifer Horsfield
• Re-reading Bean — Michael McKernan
• Bean and the making of the National Archives of Australia — Anne-Marie Condé
• The distributed Bean archive: bigger than we know — Michael Piggott
• Re-thinking Bean’s philosophy of history — Martin Ball
• Bean and official history — Jeffrey Grey
• Charles Bean’s ‘Straight Line’ — Peter Rees
• Part 2 The Australian official history tradition
• An adequate memorial: Charles Bean and Gavin Long — Peter Stanley
• Conflicts and controversies: the Official History of Australia’s Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975 — Peter Edwards
• ‘The Malayan Emergency and Konfrontasi’ — Peter Dennis
• The Vietnam Conflict — Chris Clark
• Writing the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations — David Horner
• Doing History in the Digital Age: Compiling the Regional Command – South war diary — Garth Pratten
• Official History of East Timor/Afghanistan/Iraq — Craig Stockings

About the Author

Peter Stanley is Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra. He has published 30 books, mostly in Australian military history but also in medical history, about the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire, and the military history of British India. He is an Associate Director of ACSACS, the General Editor of the Army’s Cambridge University Press series and President of Honest History. His most recent book (with Vicken Babkenian) is Armenia, Australia & the Great War.