Culture Wars - Forgotten arena of heroics - AWM

While we see:

A legend wins the culture wars
April 25, 2006 The Anzac story continues to appeal because it has always been based on fact, writes Gerard Henderson.

and

All too quiet on the Western Front
April 25, 2006
It's time to shift the focus from Gallipoli to a forgotten arena of heroics, writes Jonathan King.

Because the media have allowed

"British records may have buried these achievements, Australians should now focus on learning more about the Western Front - so we can commemorate the 90th anniversary properly, and so the stories of that "glorious and decisive victory" can re-echo through our homeland, after all. A former Sydney Morning Herald journalist and official war correspondent, Charles Bean, answered back in his Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, but this academic tome was no bestseller."

But today "The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918" is available at awm.gov.au for all to read and learn.