War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition

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War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition is written by Kevin Blackburn and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137487607 (ISBN 10) and 9781137487605 (ISBN 13).

Commemoration of war is done through sport on Anzac Day to remember Australia's war dead. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sporting tradition at Gallipoli in 1915, and how it has evolved from late Victorian and Edwardian ideas of masculinity extolling prowess on the sports field as fostering prowess on the battlefield.