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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: History | 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
Soldiers of the Queen - Women in the Australian Army by Janette Bomford
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Army History Ser.
Soldiers of the Queen provides a history of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps. Bomford covers the WRAAC from its creation in 1951 to its dissolution in 1984, when women were integrated into the Australian army. This fascinating study analyzes the gender, political, and cultural issues surrounding ...Show more
Stretcher-Bearers: Saving Australians from Gallipoli to Kokoda by Mark Johnston
Category: Australian Studies | 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 Architect of Victory: The Military Career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman by Peter Dean
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman is one of the most important, yet relatively unknown officers in the history of the Australian Army. Despite his reputedly caustic personality and noted conflicts with some senior officers, Berryman was crucial to Australia's success during the Second World War. But ...Show more
The Hard Slog : Australians in the Bougainville Campaign, 1944-45 by Karl James
Category: History | 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: History | 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
The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam: An Analysis of Australian Task Force Combat Operations by Andrew Ross et al
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
From 1966 to 1971 the First Australian Task Force was part of the counterinsurgency campaign in South Vietnam. Though considered a small component of the Free World effort in the war, these troops from Australia and New Zealand were in fact the best trained and prepared for counterinsurgency warfare. Ho ...Show more
To Salamaua by Phillip Bradley
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Following on from his acclaimed book, The Battle for Wau, Phillip Bradley turns his attention to the Salamaua campaign - the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in the Second World War. Opening with the pivotal air-sea battle of the Bismarck Sea, this important title recounts the f ...Show more