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Spring 2008

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Summer 2007/08

The First Day of the Blitz, September 7, 1940 by Peter Stansky
(reviewed by Dr John McCarthy)

Britain's Greatest Defeat: Singapore, 1942 by Dr Alan Warren
(reviewed by Glenn Wahlert)

Duty First: A History of the Royal Australian Regiment by Professor David Horner and Dr Jean Bou
(reviewed by Brigadier Chris Appleton (Retd)

HMAS Tobruk: Warship For Every Crisis by Rear Admiral Ken Doolan (Retd)
(reviewed by Commodore Peter Leschen)

Doves Over the Pacific: In Pursuit of Peace and Stability in Bougainville by Reuben R. E. Bowd
(reviewed by Dr Bob Breen)

China's Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan by Dr James Holmes and Dr Toshi Yoshihara
(reviewed by Commodore Jack McCaffrie (Retd)

The Circuit: An ex-SAS Soldier's True Account of One of the Most Powerful and Secretive Industries Spawned by the War on Terror by Bob Shepherd (and M.P. Sabga)
(reviewed by Tony Watts)

Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War by Dr Hugo Slim
(review essay by Dr Hugh Smith)

Australia 2050: An Examination of Australia's Condition, Outlook and Options for the First Half of the 21st Century by Gregory Copley, Andrew Pickford and Barry Patterson
(reviewed by Tom Magee)

Spring 2007

The Battle of ANZAC Ridge: 25 April 1915 by Peter Williams
(reviewed by John Donovan)

Battle Order 204: A Bomber Pilot's Story by Christobel Mattingley
(reviewed by Dr John McCarthy)

Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings
(reviewed by Dr Peter Stanley)

Going Back: Australian Veterans Return to Viet Nam by Gary McKay
(reviewed by Dr Michael McKernan)

The President, The Pope and the Prime Minister by John O'Sullivan
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)

Guests of the Ayatollah: The West's First Battle in the War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
(reviewed by Neil James)

Winter 2007

25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend Was Born by David Cameron
(reviewed by Glenn Wahlert)

Backs to the Wall: A Larrikin on the Western Front by George Dean Mitchell
With a foreword by Robert Macklin
(reviewed by Dr Michael Tyquin)

The Torch and the Sword: A History of the Army Cadet Movement in Australia by Dr Craig Stockings
(reviewed by Dr Jean Bou)

A Critical Vulnerability:The Impact of the Submarine Threat on Australia's Maritime Defence 1915-1954 by Dr David Stevens
(reviewed by Richard Pelvin)

Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks by Leigh Sales
(reviewed by Neil James)

The Defence Theory of Relativity by Brigadier Brian Cooper
(Reviewed by Dr Mark Thomson)

Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren
(a review essay by Ric Smith)

Unintended Consequences: The United States at War
by Professor Emeritus Kenneth J. Hagan and Associate Professor Ian J. Bickerton
(reviewed by Jamie Cullens)

Autumn 2007

Bean's Gallipoli: The Diaries of Australia's Official War Correspondent
Edited and annotated by Dr Kevin Fewster
(reviewed by Dr Michael McKernan)

Gallipoli: The Pilgrimage Guide by Garrie Hutchinson
(reviewed by Dr Karl James)

Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill Won One War & Began Another
by Jonathan Fenby
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

Command in Vietnam: Reflections of a Commanding Officer by Colonel F. Peter Scott
(reviewed by Brigadier John Essex-Clark)

An Atlas of Australia's Wars (Second Edition) by Lieutenant General John Coates
(reviewed by Neil James)

The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy in Asia 1996–2006 by Professor Michael Wesley
(a review essay by Graeme Dobell)

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Bagdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
(reviewed by Neil James)

Summer 2006/07

Jacka VC: Australian Hero by Robert Macklin
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

The Great War by Les Carlyon
(reviewed by Professor Jeffrey Grey)

Chased by the Sun: The Australians in Bomber Command in World War II by Professor Hank Nelson
(reviewed by Squadron Leader Alex Post)

The Strength of a Nation by Dr Michael McKernan
(reviewed by Commodore Jack McCaffrie (Retd))

Strategic Cousins: Australian and Canadian Expeditionary Forces and the British and American Empires by Dr John Blaxland
(reviewed by Neil James)

General Peter Cosgrove: My Story by General Peter Cosgrove (Retd)
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
(reviewed by Patrick Gallagher)

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
(reviewed by Neil James)

Inside the Global Jihad: How I Infiltrated Al Qa'eda and was Abandoned by Western Intelligence
by Omar Nasiri
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)

Spring 2006

Somme Mud: The War Experiences of an Australian Infantryman in France 1916-1919
 by E.F.P. Lynch (edited by Will Davies)
(reviewed by Dr Peter Stanley)

Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War by Professor Bruce Scates
(reviewed by Dr Karl James)

Pilgrimage: A Traveller's Guide to Australia's Battlefields
by Garrie Hutchinson
(reviewed by Dr Karl James)

Clive Caldwell, Air Ace by Kristen Alexander
(reviewed by Air Commodore Mark Lax)

Possums & Bird Dogs: Australian Army Aviation's 161 Reconnaissance Flight in South Vietnam
by Peter Nolan
(reviewed by Major General Mike O 'Brien (Retd))

Essays on Australian Defence by Professor Paul Dibb
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)

Cosgrove: Portrait of a Leader by Patrick Lindsay
(reviewed by Neil James)

House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power by James Carroll
(reviewed by Dr Tom Frame)

Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the
A.Q. Khan Network by Gordon Corera
(reviewed by Dr Ron Huisken)

The Partnership: The Inside Story of the US-Australian Alliance Under Bush and Howard
by Greg Sheridan
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)

Winter 2006

To Villers-Bretonneux: With Brigadier-General William Glasgow, DSO, and the 13th Australian Infantry Brigade by Peter Edgar
(reviewed by Neil James)

Saving Australia: Curtin's Secret Peace With Japan by Bob Wurth
(reviewed by Dr Michael McKernan)

The Quiet Man: The Autobiography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville McNamara
by Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville McNamara
(reviewed by Air Commodore Brendan Roberts (Retd))

A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea 1950–53 by Dr Richard Trembath
(reviewed by Professor Peter Edwards)

The Cambridge History of Warfare edited by Professor Geoffrey Parker
(reviewed by Professor Peter Dennis)

The Oxford History of Modern War edited by Professor Charles Townsend
(reviewed by Professor Peter Dennis)

America's Coming War with China: A Collision Course Over Taiwan by Ted Galen Carpenter
(reviewed by Dr Tom Frame)

Autumn 2006

Vets at War: A History of the Australian Amy Veterinary Corps 1909–1946 by Ian M. Parsonson
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

A Man of Intelligence: The Life of Captain Eric Nave – Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary
by Dr Ian Pfennigwerth
(reviewed by Ron Bonighton)

Shaft of the Spear: Evolution of the RAAF Technical Services to the End of the Second World War
by Group Captain Gregory Grantham and Air Commodore Edward J. Bushell
(reviewed by Group Captain Bob Bartram (Retd))

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Captain Nathaniel Fick, USMC
(reviewed by Ian Kuring)

Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army by Kayla Williams
(reviewed by Dr Kathryn Spurling)

Righteous Violence: The Ethics and Politics of Military Intervention
edited by Professor Tony Coady and Dr Michael O'Keefe
(reviewed by Dr Tom Frame)

Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response by Aaron J. Klein
(reviewed by Ted Lapkin)

Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins by Professor Peter Edwards
(reviewed by Neil James)

Summer 2005/06

Gallipoli: An Australian Encyclopedia of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign by Ron Austin
(reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stevenson)

Game to the Last: The 11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli by James Hurst
(reviewed by John Donovan)

A Doctor's War by Rowley Richards
(reviewed by Professor Frank Bowden)

The Right Man for the Right Job: Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Savige as a Military Commander
by Major Gavin Keating
(reviewed by Dr John Connor)

Against the Odds: Escapes and EVasions by Allied Airmen, World War II edited by Murray Adams
(reviewed by Air Commodore Mark Lax)

Only One River to Cross: An Australian Soldier Behind Enemy Lines in Korea by Dr A.M. Harris
(reviewed by Brigadier Jim Shelton, Retd)

Hassett - Australian Leader: A Biography of General Sir Francis Hassett, AC, KBE, CB, DSO, LVO
by Brigadier John Essex-Clark, (Retd)
(reviewed by Brigadier Chris Appleton)

The Men Who Persevered: The AATTV – The Most Highly Decorated Australian Unit of the Viet Nam War by Bruce Davies and Gary Mackay
(reviewed by Ian Kuring)

Through Enemy Eyes by Dave Sabben
(reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Lance Collins, (Retd))

The Navy and the Nation: The Influence of the Navy on Modern Australia
edited by Dr David Stevens and Dr John Reeve
(reviewed by Rear Admiral David Campbell, RAN (Retd))

Australian Airborne: The History and Insignia of Australian Military Parachuting by John O'Connor
(reviewed by Major David Armit)

International Terrorism: New Zealand Perspectives edited by Associate Professor James Veitch
(reviewed by Cameron Crouch)

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2005 edited by Russ Radcliffe
(reviewed by Neil James)

Spring 2005

The Somme by Professor Robin Prior and Dr Trevor Wilson
(reviewed by Dr Peter Stanley)

Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders by Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)

Strategic Command: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars by Professor David Horner
(reviewed by Professor Jeffrey Grey)

The Brotherhood of Airmen: The Men and Women of the RAAF in Action, 1914–Today
by Dr Trevor Wilson
 (reviewed by Air Commodore Mark Lax)

The Amazing SAS: The Inside Story of Australia's Special Forces by Ian McPhedran
(reviewed by Stuart Ellis)

Plunging Point: Intelligence Failures, Cover-ups and Consequences by Lance Collins and Warren Reed
(reviewed by Neil James)

Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Dr Robert Pape
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)

The Interrogators: Task Force 500 and America's Secret War Against Al Qa'eda  
by Chris Mackey and Greg Miller
(reviewed by Neil James)

Thunder From the Silent Zone: Rethinking China by Dr Paul Monk
(reviewed by Dr Brian Ridge)

Australian and US Military Co-operation: Fighting Common Enemies by Dr Christopher Hubbard 
(reviewed by Dr Hugh Smith)

Winter 2005

The Silent 7th: An Illustrated History of the 7th Australian Division by Dr Mark Johnston
(reviewed by Neil James)

Tobruk 1941 by Peter Cochrane
(reviewed by Bill Deane)

Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War by Cameron Forbes
(reviewed by Dr Peter Stanley)

Paul Cullen, Citizen and Soldier: The Life and Times of Major General Paul Cullen AC, CBE, DSO*, ED by Kevin Baker (reviewed by Neil James)

War: The Lethal Custom (Second Edition) by Dr Gwynne Dyer
(reviewed by Brigadier Justin Kelly)

The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel (Editors)
(reviewed by Dr Paul Monk)

The Long, Slow Death of White Australia by Dr Gwenda Tavan
(reviewed by Max Tapping)

Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region  by T.J. Pempel (Editor)
(reviewed by Professor Robyn Lim)

Autumn 2005

Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Harry Sidebottom
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli by Dr Peter Stanley
(reviewed by Major General Mike O'Brien (Retd))

The Royal Australian Navy in World War II (Second Edition) by Dr David Stephens (Editor)
(reviewed by Rear Admiral David Campbell, RAN (Retd))

Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan by Dr Daniel Oakman
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to War by Garry Woodard (reviewed by Professor Peter Edwards)

The Cruel Legacy: The HMAS Voyager Tragedy by Dr Tom Frame
(reviewed by Dr Ian Pfennigwerth)

In the Shadow of Swords: On the Trail of Terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia
by Sally Neighbour (reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)

Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Second Edition) by Professor Martin van Creveld
(reviewed by Brigadier George Yacoub (Retd))

Summer 2004/05

Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You: The Fatal Charge of the Light Horse, Gallipoli, August 7th, 1915
by John Hamilton (reviewed by Dr Michael McKernan)

Kokoda by Paul Ham
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

Kokoda Commander: A Life of Major General 'Tubby' Allen by Stuart Braga
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

On Shaggy Ridge: The Australian Seventh Division in the Ramu Valley – From Kaiapit to the Finisterres by Phillip Bradley (reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

Chester Wilmot Reports by Neil McDonald
(reviewed by Matt Brown)

Other People's Wars: A History of Australian Peacekeeping by Dr Peter Londey
(reviewed by Neil James)

Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor by Clinton Fernandes (reviewed by Dr Brian Ridge)

Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam by Dr Greg Barton
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)

The Geopolitics of East Asia: The Search for Equilibrium by Professor Robyn Lim
(reviewed by Neil James)

Australian Defence Almanac 2004-2005 by Raspal Khosa and Dr Mark Thomson
(reviewed by Neil James)

Spring 2004

No Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Royal Australian Navy by Dr Tom Frame
(reviewed by Dr Sam Bateman)

Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology by Graham Seal
(reviewed by Professor Jeffrey Grey)

The Battle of Long Tan: As Told by the Commanders to Bob Grandin by Bob Grandin
(reviewed by Dr Alan Stephens)

True Believer: John Howard, George Bush and the American Alliance by Robert Garran
(reviewed by Dr Hugh Smith)

A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of SIEV X by Tony Kevin
(reviewed by Dr Tom Frame)

Ruxton: A Biography by Anne Blair
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

State-Building, Governance and World Order in the Twenty-First Century by Francis Fukuyama
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

Axis of Deceit: The Story of the Intelligence Officer Who Risked All to Tell the Truth About WMD
and Iraq by Andrew Wilkie
(reviewed by Neil James)

Winter 2004

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie (reviewed by Commodore Jack McCaffrie, RAN (Retd))

On the Warpath: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce (Editors)
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

Krazy Hor: A Soldier's Story by Stan Krasnoff
(reviewed by Brigadier John Essex-Clark (Retd))

Redcoats to Cams: A History of Australian Infantry 1788 to 2001 by Ian Kuring
(reviewed by Neil James)

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot Cohen
(reviewed by Bill Deane)

Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Catastrophe by Professor Gavan McCormack (reviewed by Neil James)

Terrorism Explained: The Facts About Terrorism and Terrorist Groups by Clive Williams
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)

Living By The Sword: The Ethics of Armed Intervention by Dr Tom Frame
(reviewed by Neil James)

Autumn 2004

Alamein: The Australian Story by Mark Johnston and Dr Peter Stanley
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua by Peter Brune
(reviewed by Peter Ryan)

The Return of the Exiles: Australia's Repatriation of the Indonesians 1945–47 by Frank Bennett
(reviewed by Professor Jamie Mackie)

Alias Chin Peng: My Side of History by Chin Peng
(reviewed by Professor Peter Edwards)

The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Naval War at Sea
by Dr John Reeve and Dr David Stevens (editors)
(reviewed by Rear Admiral Gerry Carwardine, RAN (Retd)

Future Armies, Future Challenges: Land Warfare in the Information Age
by Dr Michael Evans, Dr Russell Parkin and Dr Alan Ryan (editors)
(reviewed by Professor Jeffrey Grey)

Sexing It Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia by Geoffrey Barker
(reviewed by Dr Hugh Smith)

Al Qa'eda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Bourke
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)

Summer 2003/04

From Gallipoli to Gaza: The Desert Poets of World War I by Jill Hamilton
(reviewed by Michael Thwaites)

Horseman, Pass By: The Australian Light Horse in World War I by Lindsay Baly
(reviewed by Neil James)

The Spirit of the Digger: Then & Now by Patrick Lindsay
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

The First World War: A New Illustrated History by Professor Hew Strachan
(reviewed by Neil James)

The Third Force: ANGAU's New Guinea War 1942–46 by Alan Powell
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)

D-Day: The Greatest Invasion – A People's History by Dan Van Der Vat
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

On the Offensive: The Australian Army in the Vietnam War January 1967 – June 1968
by Dr Ian McNeill and Dr Ashley Ekins
(reviewed by Brigadier John Essex-Clark (Retd))

Spring 2003

The Spirit of Kokoda: Then and Now by Patrick Lindsay
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)

Military Stress and Performance: The Australian Defence Force Experience
by George E. Kearney, Mark Creamer, Ric Marshall and Anne Goyne
(reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel David Schmidtchen)

The Battle History of the Royal New South Wales Regiment: Volume I, 1885–1918
by Major General Gordon L. Maitland (Retd)
(reviewed by Brigadier Phil Carey (Retd))

The Battle History of the Royal New South Wales Regiment: Volume II, 1939–45
by Major General Gordon L. Maitland (Retd)
(reviewed by Brigadier Phil Carey (Retd))

Operation Orders: The Experience of a Young Australian Army Officer 1963 to 1970
by Brigadier Pat Beale (Retd)
(reviewed by Neil James)

The Once and Future Army: A History of the Citizen Military Forces, 1947–1974 by Dr Dayton McCarthy (reviewed by Neil James)

Howard's War by Alison Broinowski
(reviewed by Neil James)

Winter 2003

Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)

Mad Harry: Australia's Most Decorated Soldier by George Franki and Clyde Slatyer
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)

Gallipoli: The Turkish Story by Kevin Fewster, Vecihi Ballarin and Hatice Hurmuz
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)