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A Soldier's Soldier : A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly by Jeffrey Grey
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a war under political and resource restrictions. In t ...Show more
Anzac and Empire : George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence by John Connor
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, World War I. The nation's longest-serving defence minister - holding the portfolio before, during and a ...Show more
Armies of Empire: The 9th Australian and 50th British Divisions in Battle 1939-1945 by Allan Converse
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Army History Series
Armies of Empire uniquely reflects upon the experience of two divisions from different armies facing similar challenges in the Second World War. The 9th Australian Division and the British 50th (Northumbrian) Division both saw long service and suffered heavy casualties, and both encountered morale, disc ...Show more
Australia 1944-45: Victory in the Pacific by Peter Dean
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
The years 1944 and 1945 were pivotal in the development of Australia's approach to strategy during the Second World War and beyond. While the main battlefront of the Pacific War had moved further north, Australian air, land and sea forces continued to make a significant contribution to the Allied campai ...Show more
Destroy and Build : Pacification in Phuoc Thuy, 1966-1972 by Thomas Richardson
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
In 2002, Governor General Michael Jeffrey stated that 'we Australians had everything under control in Phuoc Tuy Province'. This referred not only to military control, but to the policy of 'pacification' employed by the Republic of Vietnam and external 'Free World' allies such as the US and Australia. In ...Show more
Light Horse - A History of Australia's Mounted Arm by Jean Bou
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
The mounted soldier is one of the most evocative symbols in Australian military history. Now a celebrated part of Australia's army heritage, the role and very existence of mounted troops in modern warfare was being called into question at the time of its most crowning military moments. Light horse regim ...Show more
Pozieres: Echoes of a Distant Battle by Christopher Wray
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
From July to September 1916, some 23,000 Australians were killed or wounded in the Battle of Pozieres. It was the first strategically important engagement by Australian soldiers on the Western Front and its casualties exceeded those of any other battle of the First World War, including Gallipoli. In thi ...Show more
Proud 6th - Australian 6th Division by Mark Johnston
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Following Mark Johnston's acclaimed illustrated histories of the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions, this is his long-awaited history of the 6th Australian Division: the first such history ever published. The 6th was a household name during World War II. It was the first division raised in the Second Aust ...Show more
Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War 1914-1918 by William Westerman
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914-1918 is the first book to examine the background, role and conduct of Australian commanding officers during the First World War. Though they held positions of power, commanding officers inhabited a leadership no man's land - ...Show more
Stretcher-Bearers: Saving Australians from Gallipoli to Kokoda by Mark Johnston
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Stretcher-bearers is a compelling account of the experience of Australian stretcher-bearers during the First and Second World Wars. Respected military historian, Mark Johnston traces the development of formal stretcher-bearing from its origin in the early nineteenth century under Napoleon to the Second ...Show more
The Hard Slog : Australians in the Bougainville Campaign, 1944-45 by Karl James
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
The island of Bougainville in the South Pacific was the site of one of the largest and most gruelling campaigns fought by Australian forces during the Second World War. During the offensive against the Japanese from November 1944 to August 1945, more than 500 Australians were killed and two Victoria Cro ...Show more
The Kokoda Campaign 1942: Myth and Reality by Peter Williams
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Army History Series
The fighting on the Kokoda Track in World War II is second only to Gallipoli in the Australian national consciousness. The Kokoda campaign of 1942 has taken on mythical status in Australian military history. According to the legend, Australian soldiers were vastly outnumbered by the Japanese, who suffer ...Show more