7th September, 2012

Source: The Australian

CATE Shortland has a deep and abiding interest in military history – and she’s got a pretty good idea why that’s no uncommon thing.

“It’s [because war is] so raw; it’s impossible to ever articulate exactly how painful [it is], the acts of bravery and the acts of cowardice, the terror of it; so you’re constantly trying to understand it,” she says. “I think that’s why we keep telling the stories.”