Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean wasalso Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behindthe creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised forhis deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was alsoa public servant, institutional leader, author, activist, thinker, doer,philosopher, and polemicist.

In Charles Bean, Man, myth, legacy, Australia's top military historians including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey,Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings analysethe man, the myth, and his long-reaching legacy.