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Oboe Landings 1945 by Dayton McCarthy
Category: Military History | Series: Australian Army Campaign Series
In mid-1945, the Australian 7th and 9th Divisions conducted three amphibious operations - code-named Oboe - on Borneo. The Allies enjoyed command of the sea and the air, and used both to isolate and pummel the Japanese defenders. The Borneo landings - well planned, resourced and executed - are rightly ...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 Fromelles 1916 (#8 Australian Army Campaigns) by Roger Lee
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns
The Battle of Fromelles remains the single bloodiest day in terms of soldiers killed, wounded or missing, in Australia's military history. Remains of soldiers were recently discovered in mass graves in northern France and the final soldier will be laid to rest when a new cemetery officially opens on 19t ...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
The Hindenburg Line Campaign 1918 (#26 Australian Army Campaigns) by Adam Rankin
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
In the last devastating months of the First World War, the British Fourth Army pursued the Germans to their final defensive position - the Hindenburg Line, a formidable series of defensive positions studded with concrete dugouts and thickly set barbed wire. The Hindenburg Line 1918 describes the two fie ...Show more
The Landing At ANZAC, 1915 (#12 Australian Army Campaigns) 2nd ed. by Chris Roberts
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns S.
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history - myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account questions several of the claims of ...Show more
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 (#12 Australian Army Campaigns) by Chris Roberts
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Series
The Landing at ANZAC, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history - myths that have endured for almost a century. Told from both the ANZAC and Turkish perspectives, this meticulously researched account questions several of the claims of ...Show more
The Ottoman Defence Against the Anzac Landing, 25 April 1915 (#16 Australian Army Campaigns) by Mesut Uyar
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Series
The landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 represents a defining moment, not only for Australia and New Zealand, but also for Turkey. However a detailed account of the landing from the Turkish perspective has yet to be published in English despite the 100 years that has elapsed since the first ANZACs scr ...Show more