LNL Summer: A pilgrimage to Ambon

LNL Summer: A pilgrimage to Ambon

Update: 2024-12-30
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A war historian accompanies a group on a pilgrimage to the Indonesian island of Ambon, where hundreds of Australian soldiers died in WWll. Joan Beaumont ponders the meaning of memory, and connection to past war traumas. 

Guest: Joan Beaumont, Emerita Professor in the ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. Author of 'I never knew my uncle', an article in the July edition of Australian Book Review

This story originally aired on 17 July 2024. 

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LNL Summer: A pilgrimage to Ambon

LNL Summer: A pilgrimage to Ambon

Australian Broadcasting Corporation