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Sacred places : war memorials in the Australian landscape

War memorials embody what Australians have wanted to say about the service and death of their compatriots in overseas wars, and express pride, grief, perceptions of God, empire and nation. The story of their making is composed of both harmony and conflict. Ken Inglis argues that they are shrines of a civil religion

Print Book, English, 2008
[Fully updated third ed.]
Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Vic., 2008