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Australian Military Operations In Vietnam (#3 Australian Army Campaigns) by Albert Palazzo
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns S.
From 1962 to 1972 Australia joined the United States in fighting a communist inspired insurgency war in the jungles of South Vietnam against infiltrators who sought to overthrow the local government. Over 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam, 519 lost their lives, and the conflict ended ignominiously in ...Show more
Battle of Broodseinde Ridge 1917 (#21 Australian Army Campaigns) by William Westerman
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
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Battle of Crete (#1 Australian Army Campaigns) by Albert Palazzo
Category: History | Series: Australian Army Campaigns S.
Between 20 May and 1 June 1941 the Second World War came to the Greek island of Crete. The Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, New Zealand and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had not recovered from defeat.
Battle of Menin Road 1917 (#20 Australian Army Campaigns) by Roger Lee
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The Passchendaele Campaign of 1917 is associated with images of slimy, oozing mud: mud deep enough and glutinous enough to drown men, horses and equipment, mud so pervasive that it, rather than the enemy, defeated the British Army's only major campaign in Belgium. While these images are certainly true f ...Show more
Battle of Pozieres 1916 (#22 Australian Army Campaigns) by Meleah Hampton
Category: History | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The Battle of Pozières has reverberated throughout Australia's military history, long regarded as a costly battle that produced little meaningful gain. Pozières was characterised by the most intense artillery bombardment the Australians had experienced in the war thus far and 'the hell that was Pozières ...Show more
Counter Attack Villers-Bretonneux April 1918 (#27 Australian Army Campaigns) by EDGAR, PETER
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The brutal 1914 German invasion of Belgium and France had gained a large portion of both countries. Over three-and-a-half punishing years the Allies were slowly pushing the Germans back but in March 1918, Germany launched a massive spring offensive. Resting in the Ypres sector after the horrors of the P ...Show more
Salamaua 1943 by Phillip Bradley
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
Between the end of the Kokoda campaign in January 1943 and the start of the New Guinea offensives at Lae in early September 1943, the Australian Army was engaged in some of the most intense and challenging fighting of the war for the ridges around Salamaua. Following the defeat of the Japanese offensive ...Show more
Sudan 1885 (#15 Australian Army Campaigns) by Michael Tyquin
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Series
The involvement of an Australian colonial military force in Britain's Egyptian campaigns between 1883 and 1885 was very short, extending for only five months overall, including the pre-deployment phase. Consequently its influence on these campaigns was insignificant. Nevertheless, our involvement in the ...Show more
The Battle of Maryang San 1951 (#23 Australian Army Campaigns) by Dayton McCarthy
Category: History | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The Battle of Milne Bay (#24 Australian Army Campaigns) by Nicholas Anderson
Category: History | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
By 1942 the formidable Japanese military had conquered swathes of territory across south-east Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Despite its defeat at the Battle of Midway, Japan remained a potent enemy committed to the creation of a defensive arc to shield its captured possessions in the Pacific. The capture ...Show more
The Battle of Passchendaele (#28 Australian Army Campaigns) by Ian Finlayson
Category: History | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The Battle for Passchendaele on 12 October 1917 was one of the epic struggles of the First World War.British Field Marshal Douglas Haig allocated II ANZAC Corps to capture Passchendaele village, with Major General Monash's 3rd Australian Division and the New Zealand Division leading the attack. For both ...Show more
The Battle of Polygon Wood 1917 (#19 Australian Army Campaigns) by Jonathan Passlow
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
Buoyed by the success of the 1st and 2nd Australian divisions in the Battle of Menin Road, the men of the 4th and 5th Australian divisions filed into the front line ready for the next phase of the battle. Ahead of them lay the blackened remnants of Polygon Wood, a desolate expanse of splintered stumps s ...Show more