A nation’s eyes, ears

Vernon Graham
Updated September 22 2015 - 3:03pm, first published April 24 2015 - 4:00am
Keen bean: C.E.W. Bean in a large communications trench leading to New Zealand headquarters. Photograph by Phillip Schuller. AWM PS 1580.
Keen bean: C.E.W. Bean in a large communications trench leading to New Zealand headquarters. Photograph by Phillip Schuller. AWM PS 1580.

BATHURST-born Charles Bean left Australia a legacy that is almost certainly unique in modern military writing - a history of a nation's involvement in a major war written by a person who witnessed almost all the biggest battles.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

Group Editor

Group editor of Fairfax Agricultural Media.

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