Saturday Extra

It's Remembrance Day tomorrow, and maybe these days, with our troops on active service, it does have extra meaning.

Historian and author Les Carlyon is the author of The Great War, it's just been released in paperback, it's won the inaugural PM's Award for history and the Australian Book of the Year from the publishing industry.

It's short-listed too for the Walkley Awards in the non-fiction category.

There's lots of detail, however, as you'll hear a bit later, some have taken him to task for not being curious enough about the whole story.

In this month's Australian Literary Review, out this week, a Sydney University historian says that books like Les' leave women 'missing in action'.

Guests

Les Carlyon
Author - The Great War (2006) Pan Macmillan

Melanie Oppenheimer
Associate Professor School of Humanities and Languages
University of Western Sydney

Story Researcher and Producer

Jo Jarvis