It's ironic your username is 'spectre', because that's exactly what Gallipoli and the ANZAC legend casts over modern Australia. Don't take my word for it, read

It's ironic your username is 'spectre', because that's exactly what Gallipoli and the ANZAC legend casts over modern Australia. Don't take my word for it, read James Brown's "Anzac's Long Shadow" to see how the mythologising of one tiny theatre of war continues to shape our country: http://www.blackincbooks.com/books/anzacs-long-shadow http://www.blackincbooks.com/books/anzacs-long-shadow