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Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History by Craig Stockings
Category: Military
Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of 'Australian' virtues can thrive. In Anzac's Dirty Dozen a ...Show more
Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac by Craig Stockings
Category: Military
On 3 January 1941 Australian soldiers led an assault against the Italian colonial fortress town of Bardia. Two days later, after 55 hours of heavy fighting, the position fell to the Australians in a resounding victory. At a cost of 130 killed and 326 wounded, the Australians captured around 40,000 Itali ...Show more
Battle of Bardia by Craig Stockings
Category: Military
On the morning of 3 January 1941, Australians of the 6th Division led an assault against the Italian colonial fortressvillage of Bardia in Libya, not far from the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. The ensuing battle was the second of the First Libyan Campaign, but the first battle of the Second World War planne ...Show more
Before the Anzac Dawn: A military history of Australia to 1915 by Craig Stockings & John Connor
Category: Military
This book provides a comprehensive and compelling account of Australian military history before any soldier set foot on Gallipoli. It shows that this pre-1915 history has largely been forgotten. Indeed the extent to which Australians thought about war and experienced war before ANZAC existed will surpri ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
Category: Military | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and the Late-Victorian Imperial Defence by Craig Stockings
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian Army History Series
Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and the Late-Victorian Imperial Defence presents an in-depth, international study of imperial land defence prior to 1914. The book makes sense of the failures, false starts and successes that eventually led to more than 850,000 men being despatche ...Show more
Letters from the Veldt - The Imperial Advance to Pretoria Through the Eyes of Edward Hutton and His Brigade of Colonials by Craig Stockings
Category: Military
The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest British military effort since the Napoleonic Wars. It was also the first time that large-scale, meaningful contributions were made to an active theatre of war by the self-governing colonies. This inclu ...Show more
Shadow Men: The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam by Craig Stockings
Category: Military
There is no question that these famous figures of theAustralian Army are important, but their story is not thestory. There are also the individuals who shaped the historyof the Australian Army in the 20th century, as intellectuals,strategists and administrators, but are largely invisible inpopular memor ...Show more
Zombie Myths of Australian Military by STOCKINGS Craig (ed)
Category: Military
Over the years many books on Australian military history have given rise to a host of 'zombie' myths - myths that refuse to die. A great many have a strong commemorative and celebratory tradition and aim to entertain or memorialise the gallant deeds of past Australian servicemen. Such accounts are often ...Show more
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