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Great War Stories

Jennifer Byrne invites Peter FitzSimons, Christina Spittel, Merrick Watts and Delia Falconer to bring in their favourite books about WWI to discuss and recommend to the audience. Titles and authors discussed: All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain, Charles Bean: If People Really Knew – Ross Coulthart, Official History of Australian in the War of 1914-18 – C.E.W. Bean, The Anzac Book – C.E.W. Bean, Anzac to Amiens – C.E.W. Bean, Flesh in Armour – Leonard Mann, Gallipoli – Les Carlyon, In Flanders Field (poem) – John McRae, Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf, My Brother Jack – George Johnston, Storm of Steel – Ernst Junger, The Great War – Les Carlyon, The Great War and Modern Memory – Paul Fussell, The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker, The Wing of Night – Brenda Walker, We're All Australians Now (poem) – Banjo Paterson

English
  • Originally Aired April 19, 2015
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Network ABC1
  • Notes Is a season finale
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Name Type Role
Delia Falconer Guest Star
Peter FitzSimons Guest Star
Christina Spittel Guest Star
Merrick Watts Guest Star