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