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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: WWI & WWII | 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: Fiction | 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
Australian Battalion Commanders in by Garth Pratten
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
In Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, Garth Pratten explores, for the first time, the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II. Despite their vital role as the lynchpins of the battlefield, uniting the senior officers ...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
Destroy and Build : Pacification in Phuoc Thuy, 1966-1972 by Thomas Richardson
Category: Fiction | 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
Morshead - Hero of Tobruk and el Alamein by David Coombes
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Ser.
Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Morshead was one of Australia's greatest soldiers. Drawing on previously inaccessible private records and recent scholarship, David Coombes provides a candid account of this famous field commander and shows why Morshead's distinguished career fits into Australia's military ...Show more
Neville Howse : Australia's First Victoria Cross Winner by Michael B. Tyquin
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Army History
Our Corner of the Somme - Australia at Villers-Bretonneux by Romain Fathi
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Ser.
By the time of the Armstice, Villers-Bretonneux - once a lively and flourishing French town - had been largely destroyed, and half its population had fled or died. From March to August 1918, Villers-Bretonneux formed part of an active front line, at which Australian troops were heavily involved. As a re ...Show more