future Australia as being an agrarian society with millions of farmers. Aboriginal Australians are excluded from his vision and are not mentioned or referred to by Bean in his text. Bean urges the readers of In Your Hands, Australians to create "An Anglo-Saxon nation of free, happy, brilliant people". In Your Hands, Australians was met with favorable criticism: “In his recently- published book In Your Hands, Australians, Bean preaches high ideals- for the days of peace, and proves himself a good Australian, filled with patriotic fervour, animated by deep love of his native land. He has learnt, as did every "Digger," that there is no country like his own, and no people the equal of his compatriots.” “A Fine Book – For Australians." “....an inspiring book, In Your Hands, Australians is a book which must be read by every citizen of the Commonwealth.” “This book is one of the freshest and most suggestive that we have read on the great problems of reconstruction. It is well worth reading with care and thought. The writer speaks from a privileged position. It is evident that this high tone is necessary to pull the country through the trying times.” References Citations Sources • Bean, C.E.W. (1919) "In Your Hands, Australians", Cassell and Company, London. • Bean, C.E.W. (1917) "Letters from France", Cassell and Company Ltd., London. • Bean, C.E.W.(ed.) (2010) "The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac", Cassell, London, (1916) 3rd edition, UNSW Press, Sydney. ISBN 978-1-74223-134-1 • Bean, C.E.W. (1952) "Gallipoli Mission", Halstead Press, Sydney. ISBN 0753-0022-7-2 • Bean, C.E.W. (1943) "War Aims of a Plain Australian", Angus and Robertson, Sydney. • Burness, Peter (ed.) (2018) "The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean", NewSouth, Sydney. ISBN 9781742235868 • Coulthart, Ross "Charles Bean If people really knew". Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney, 2014,ISBN 978 0 7322 978 • Gooding, Janda (2009) "Gallipoli Revisited: In the footsteps of Charles Bean and the Australian Historical Mission", Hardie Grant Books, Victoria. ISBN 978-1-74066-7654 • Inglis, K.S. (1970) "C.E. W. Bean, Australian Historian", The John Murtagh Macrossan Lecture, UQP. ISBN 0-7022-0583-4 • Inglis, Ken (1979) "Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (1879–1968)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 9780522841855; OCLC 185989559 • McCarthy, Dudley (1983) "Gallipoli to the Somme: The story of Charles Bean", John Ferguson Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW. ISBN 0-909-134-588 • Piggott, Michael (1983) "A guide