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The War That Changed the World

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The effect of World War One from a global perspective

One hundred years ago the First World War set the course for the modern world: for the countries that took part nothing would be the same again.

The War That Changed the World: Australia: The Legend of Anzac

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Sydney – The Legend of Anzac

18/04/2015

Australia: The Legend of Anzac

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Australia and the legend of Anzac - how Australia's experience of WW1 differed from that of other nations.

Australia's experience of WW1 is like no other country's in the world. In association with the British Council, BBC presenter Razia Iqbal and an Australian audience debate the role the 'legend of Anzac' played in the hundred year history of Australia since the first Anzac Day. With  Marilyn Lake from the University of Melbourne, Bruce Scates of Monash University and theatre director and playwright Wesley Enoch - a relative of one Aboriginal WW1 soldier, Horace Thomas Dalton. 

(Photo: Ferry carrying members of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force, ANMEF, leaving Sydney harbour, exact date unknown.)
(Credit: Fairfax Media via Getty Images)

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