The AIF's first and greatest historian, Charles Bean, thought that the finest tribute we could pay to the men that he knew was to tell their story straight. Bad Characters travels from the outbreak of the war through the agonising course of the conflict to its end and beyond, to the memory of the larrikin Digger that has survived in folklore and anecdote to this day. The term 'bad characters' was used by the army to refer to those who caused unrest or were disobedient: their crimes ranged from avoiding battle, absenteeism, desertion, disobedience and self-inflicting wounds and contracting venereal disease, to the more extreme charges of murder and mutiny. Bad Characters will tell the story of the Australian soldiers in the Great War who were not heroes. AUSTRALIAN MILITARYAustralia's long-standing love affair with the Diggers has blinded us to the dark side of the Anzac legend.
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