Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obsession: Redbacks"This year an Anzac orgy begins. A commemorative programme that would make the pharaohs envious. But commemorating soldiers is not the same as connecting with them " James Brown, Anzac's Long Shadow. In Anzac's Long Shadow, James Brown, a former army officer and brilliant young thinker, describes how Australia is investing too much time, money, and emotion in the Anzac legend. He argues that when a legend comes to dominate reality, there is always a