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Book SynopsisAnzac and Empire is the first full-length biography of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, World War I.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. 'We, too, have hopes and ambitions', 1870–1909; 2. Building the Framework, 1910–1913; 3. War, 1914; 4. 'One of the great battle stories of the British Empire', 1915; 5. Conscription and the Labor Split, 1916; 6. The disastrous department, 1917; 7. 'Pearce is doomed!', 1918; 8. London and Washington, 1919–1922; 9. Rearmament, 1922–1952; Notes; Bibliography; Index.