Bean, Australia's official historian of World War I, who focused his narrative on the men in the line rather than the strategies of generals. It was first published in 1974, and re-printed in 1975, 1980, 1981 (the year in which Peter Weir's film, Gallipoli came out), 19. Gammage is best known for his book The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, which is based on his PhD thesis written while at the Australian National University. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and deputy chair of the National Museum of Australia. He was on the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Adelaide. Gammage was born in Orange, New South Wales, went to Wagga Wagga High School and then to ANU. William Leonard Gammage AM, FASSA (born 1942) is an Australian academic historian, adjunct professor and senior research fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University (ANU). The Broken Years: A Study of the Diaries and Letters of Australian Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–18 (1970) Queensland Literary Awards History Book Award (2012) Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction (2012) Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History (2012) Manning Clark House National Cultural Award (2011) Queensland Premier's History Book Award (1999) Manning Clark Bicentennial History Award (1988)įellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1995)
