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Bad Characters by Peter Stanley5/20/2023 ![]() Bad Characters travels from the outbreak of the war through the agonising course of the conflict to its end and beyond, to the memory of the larrikin Digger that has survived in folklore and anecdote to this day. ![]() The term 'bad characters' was used by the army to refer to those who caused unrest or were disobedient: their crimes ranged from avoiding battle, absenteeism, desertion, disobedience and self-inflicting wounds and contracting venereal disease, to the more extreme charges of murder and mutiny. It will tell the story of the Australian soldiers in the Great War who were not heroes: soldiers who committed offences and crimes those who malingered, deserted, robbed and murdered their comrades those who took part in riots, strikes and mutiny. Bad Characters is a book that will do something no other book has tried to do. Australia's long-standing love affair with the Diggers has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend. ![]()
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