On 11 November 1918, the war finally came to an end. Rather than celebrate with everybody else, you were finishing up a book you'd written in two weeks called In Your Hands, Australians. Charles, what did you think was the message to come out of the First World War? for Australia?

Having lived through four years of war and seen the killing of 60 000 of his own countrymen, Bean was determined to do his bit to ensure that the loss of this men was not in vain (.docx 528kB). He had one particular group in mind when he wrote In your hands (.docx 528kB).

Watch the final video in the Historians section of Charles Bean’s Great War