Forgotten War

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Description

Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars in a foreign country, but there are no official commemorations of the battles fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists. Delving into why it’s more controversial to discuss the frontier war now than it used to be 100 years ago, Forgotten War continues the tale told in Henry Reynolds’ seminal book The Other Side of the Frontier, which argues that the settlement of Australia had a high level of violence and conflict that people chose to ignore. That book prompted a flowering of research and fieldwork that Reynolds draws on here to present a thorough and systematic account of what caused the frontier wars, what number of people died, and whether the colonists themselves saw frontier conflict as a type of warfare. This powerful book makes it clear that there will also be no reconciliation in Australia without acknowledging the wars fought by itself soil.


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