As You Were: 1950
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
As You Were is a celebrated annual anthology published by the Australian War Memorial, presenting a vivid tapestry of Australian military life through fiction, poetry, memoirs, and artwork contributed by servicemen and women. First issued in the post-war years, the 1950 edition captures the enduring spirit, humour, and hardship of those who served in Australia's armed forces, drawing from the collective memory of a nation still processing the aftermath of global conflict. Each contribution — whether a darkly comic yarn from the frontline or a quietly elegiac poem — reflects the authentic voice of the Australian soldier, sailor, and airman with unflinching candour. More than a simple miscellany, this volume stands as a significant cultural document, illustrating the way ordinary Australians understood and narrated their own wartime experience at a pivotal moment in the country's history. The Australian War Memorial's stewardship of these accounts lends the collection an authoritative gravity, preserving voices that might otherwise have faded from the historical record. For students of Australian military history, literary culture, or the broader human cost of twentieth-century warfare, this volume poses a quietly haunting question: what does it truly mean to remember?
Author: -
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, A.C.T.
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
As You Were is a celebrated annual anthology published by the Australian War Memorial, presenting a vivid tapestry of Australian military life through fiction, poetry, memoirs, and artwork contributed by servicemen and women. First issued in the post-war years, the 1950 edition captures the enduring spirit, humour, and hardship of those who served in Australia's armed forces, drawing from the collective memory of a nation still processing the aftermath of global conflict. Each contribution — whether a darkly comic yarn from the frontline or a quietly elegiac poem — reflects the authentic voice of the Australian soldier, sailor, and airman with unflinching candour. More than a simple miscellany, this volume stands as a significant cultural document, illustrating the way ordinary Australians understood and narrated their own wartime experience at a pivotal moment in the country's history. The Australian War Memorial's stewardship of these accounts lends the collection an authoritative gravity, preserving voices that might otherwise have faded from the historical record. For students of Australian military history, literary culture, or the broader human cost of twentieth-century warfare, this volume poses a quietly haunting question: what does it truly mean to remember?