With both pen and sword: a biography of Sir Henry (Harry) Gullett (1878-1940)
Journal: University of Southern Queensland ePrints (University of Southern Queensland)
Year: 2017

The centenary commemorations of the First World War (1914-1918) have inevitably brought with them a re-evaluation of the conflict and its enduring impact. It has also stimulated further investigation into the means by which societies have come to understand the war, a process characterised by Samuel Hynes as a ‘war imagined’.1 This ‘imagining’ is not synonymous with the creation of a falsehood; it merely emphasises that a view of war is socio-culturally situated. Competing views, as Hynes observ