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Books Reviewed in Defender (Since 2003)
(Alphabetical by Reviewer)


A

Brigadier Chris Appleton (Retd):

Duty First: A History of the Royal Australian Regiment (Second Edition) by Professor David Horner and Dr Jean Bou

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

Major David Armit:

Australian Airborne: The History and Insignia of Australian Military Parachuting
by John O'Connor

B

Group Captain Bob Bartram (Retd):

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

Dr Sam Bateman:

No Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Royal Australian Navy by Dr Tom Frame

Ron Bonighton:

A Man of Intelligence: The Life of Captain Eric Nave - Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary by Dr Ian Pfennigwerth

Dr Jean Bou:

The Torch and the Sword: A History of the Army Cadet Movement in Australia
by Dr Craig Stockings

Professor Frank Bowden:

A Doctor's War by Rowley Richards

Dr Bob Breen

Doves Over the Pacific: In Pursuit of Peace and Stability in Bougainville
by Reuben R. E. Bowd

Matt Brown:

Chester Wilmot Reports by Neil McDonald

C

Rear Admiral David Campbell, RAN (Retd):

The Navy and the Nation: The Influence of the Navy on Modern Australia
edited by Dr David Stevens and Dr John Reeve

The Royal Australian Navy in World War II (Second Edition)
edited by Dr David Stephens

Brigadier Phil Carey (Retd):

The Battle History of the Royal New South Wales Regiment: Volume I, 1885-1918
and Volume II, 1939-45 by Major General Gordon L. Maitland (Retd)

Rear Admiral Gerry Carwardine, RAN (Retd):

The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Naval War at Sea
edited by Dr John Reeve and Dr David Stevens

Lieutenant Colonel Lance Collins, (Retd):

Through Enemy Eyes by Dave Sabben

Dr John Connor:

The Right Man for the Right Job: Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Savige as a Military Commander by Major Gavin Keating

Cameron Crouch:

International Terrorism: New Zealand Perspectives
edited by Associate Professor James Veitch

Jamie Cullens:

Unintended Consequences: The United States at War
by Professor Emeritus Kenneth J. Hagan and Associate Professor Ian J. Bickerton

D

Bill Deane:

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot Cohen

Tobruk 1941 by Peter Cochrane

Professor Peter Dennis:

The Cambridge History of Warfare edited by Professor Geoffrey Parker

The Oxford History of Modern War edited by Professor Charles Townsend

Graeme Dobell:

The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy in Asia 1996-2006
by Professor Michael Wesley

John Donovan:

Game to the Last: The 11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli by James Hurst

The Battle of ANZAC Ridge: 25 April 1915 by Peter Williams

E

Professor Peter Edwards:

Alias Chin Peng: My Side of History by Chin Peng

Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to War
by Garry Woodard

A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea 1950-53 by Dr Richard Trembath

Stuart Ellis:

 The Amazing SAS: The Inside Story of Australia's Special Forces by Ian McPhedran

Brigadier John Essex-Clark (Retd)

Command in Vietnam: Reflections of a Commanding Officer by Colonel F. Peter Scott

Krazy Hor: A Soldier's Story by Stan Krasnoff

On the Offensive: The Australian Army in the Vietnam War January 1967 – June 1968

by Dr Ian McNeill and Dr Ashley Ekins

F

Professor Tom Frame:

A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of SIEV X by Tony Kevin

America's Coming War with China: A Collision Course Over Taiwan
by Ted Galen Carpenter

House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
by James Carroll

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

G

Patrick Gallagher:

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

Professor Jeffrey Grey:

Future Armies, Future Challenges: Land Warfare in the Information Age
edited by Dr Michael Evans, Dr Russell Parkin and Dr Alan Ryan

Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology by Graham Seal

Strategic Command: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars
by Professor David Horner

The Great War by Les Carlyon

H

Dr Ron Huisken:

Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network by Gordon Corera

I

J

Neil James:

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

Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins by Professor Peter Edwards

Australian Defence Almanac 2004-2005 by Raspal Khosa and Dr Mark Thomson

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

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2005 edited by Russ Radcliffe

Cosgrove: Portrait of a Leader by Patrick Lindsay

Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks by Leigh Sales

Guests of the Ayatollah: The West's First Battle in the War with Militant Islam
by Mark Bowden

Horseman, Pass By: The Australian Light Horse in World War I by Lindsay Baly

Howard's War by Alison Broinowski

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Bagdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Living By The Sword: The Ethics of Armed Intervention by Dr Tom Frame

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

Other People's Wars: A History of Australian Peacekeeping by Dr Peter Londey

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

Plunging Point: Intelligence Failures, Cover-ups and Consequences
by Lance Collins and Warren Reed

Redcoats to Cams: A History of Australian Infantry 1788 to 2001 by Ian Kuring

Strategic Cousins: Australian and Canadian Expeditionary Forces and the British and American Empires by Dr John Blaxland

Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Catastrophe
by Professor Gavan McCormack

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer

The First World War: A New Illustrated History by Professor Hew Strachan

The Geopolitics of East Asia: The Search for Equilibrium by Professor Robyn Lim

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

The Once and Future Army: A History of the Citizen Military Forces, 1947-1974
by Dr Dayton McCarthy

The Silent 7th: An Illustrated History of the 7th Australian Division by Dr Mark Johnston

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

Dr Karl James:

Gallipoli: The Pilgrimage Guide by Garrie Hutchinson

Pilgrimage: A Traveller's Guide to Australia's Battlefields by Garrie Hutchinson

Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War by Bruce Scates

K

Brigadier Justin Kelly:

War: The Lethal Custom (Second Edition) by Dr Gwynne Dyer

Dr Malcolm Kennedy:

Alamein: The Australian Story by Mark Johnston and Dr Peter Stanley

Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill Won One War & Began Another by Jonathan Fenby

Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Harry Sidebottom

D-Day: The Greatest Invasion – A People's History by Dan Van Der Vat

Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan by Dr Daniel Oakman

Jacka VC: Australian Hero by Robert Macklin

Kokoda by Paul Ham

Kokoda Commander: A Life of Major General 'Tubby' Allen by Stuart Braga

On Shaggy Ridge: The Australian Seventh Division in the Ramu Valley - From Kaiapit to the Finisterres by Phillip Bradley

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

Ruxton: A Biography by Anne Blair

State-Building, Governance and World Order in the Twenty-First Century
by Francis Fukuyama

The Spirit of the Digger: Then & Now by Patrick Lindsay

The Spirit of Kokoda Then and Now by Patrick Lindsay

Vets at War: A History of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps 1909-1946
by Ian M. Parsonson

Ian Kuring

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Captain Nathaniel Fick, USMC

The Men Who Persevered: The AATV–The Most Highly Decorated Australian Unit of the Viet Nam War by Bruce Davies and Gary Mackay

L

Ted Lapkin:

Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response
by Aaron J. Klein

Air Commodore Mark Lax:

Against the Odds: Escapes and Evasions by Allied Airmen, World War II
edited by Murray Adams

The Brotherhood of Airmen: The Men and Women of the RAAF in Action, 1914-Today
by Dr Trevor Wilson

Clive Caldwell, Air Ace by Kristen Alexander

Tony LeRay-Meyer:

Al Qa'eda: Casting a Shadow of Terror by Jason Bourke

Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Dr Robert Pape

Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam by Dr Greg Barton

Inside the Global Jihad: How I Infiltrated Al Qa'eda and was Abandoned by Western Intelligence by Omar Nasiri

In the Shadow of Swords: On the Trail of Terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia
by Sally Neighbour

Terrorism Explained: The Facts About Terrorism and Terrorist Groups by Clive Williams

Commodore Peter Leschen

HMAS Tobruk: Warship For Every Crisis by Rear Admiral Ken Doolan (Retd)

Professor Robyn Lim:

Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region  edited by T.J. Pempel

M

Commodore Jack McCaffrie, RAN (Retd):

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
by Robert K. Massie

The Strength of a Nation by Dr Michael McKernan

China's Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan by Dr James Holmes
and Dr Toshi Yoshihara

Dr John McCarthy:

Battle Order 204: A Bomber Pilot's Story by Christobel Mattingley

The First Day of the Blitz, September 7, 1940 by Peter Stansky

Dr Michael McKernan:

Bean's Gallipoli: The Diaries of Australia's Official War Correspondent
edited and annotated by Dr Kevin Fewster

Going Back: Australian Veterans Return to Viet Nam by Gary McKay

Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You: The Fatal Charge of the Light Horse, Gallipoli, August 7th, 1915 by John Hamilton

Saving Australia: Curtin's Secret Peace With Japan by Bob Wurth

Professor Jamie Mackie:

The Return of the Exiles: Australia's Repatriation of the Indonesians 1945–47
by Frank Bennett

Tom Magee

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

Dr Paul Monk:

The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib
edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel

N

O

Major General Mike O 'Brien (Retd):

Possums & Bird Dogs: Australian Army Aviation's 161 Reconnaissance Flight in South Vietnam by Peter Nolan

Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli by Dr Peter Stanley

Michael O'Connor

Essays on Australian Defence by Professor Paul Dibb

Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson

Gallipoli: The Turkish Story by Kevin Fewster, Vecihi Ballarin and Hatice Hurmuz

General Peter Cosgrove: My Story by General Peter Cosgrove (Retd)

Mad Harry: Australia's Most Decorated Soldier by George Franki and Clyde Slatyer

The Third Force: ANGAU's New Guinea War 1942–46 by Alan Powell

The Partnership: The Inside Story of the US-Australian Alliance Under Bush and Howard by Greg Sheridan

The President, The Pope and the Prime Minister by John O'Sullivan

Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders
by Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg

P

Richard Pelvin:

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

Dr Ian Pfennigwerth:

The Cruel Legacy: The HMAS Voyager Tragedy by Dr Tom Frame

Squadron Leader Alex Post:

Chased by the Sun: The Australians in Bomber Command in World War II
by Professor Hank Nelson

Q

R

Dr Brian Ridge:

Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor
by Clinton Fernandes

Thunder From the Silent Zone: Rethinking China by Dr Paul Monk

Air Commodore Brendan Roberts (Retd):

The Quiet Man: The Autobiography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville McNamara
by Air Chief Marshal Sir Neville McNamara

Peter Ryan:

A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua by Peter Brune

S

Lieutenant Colonel David Schmidtchen:

Military Stress and Performance: The Australian Defence Force Experience
by George E. Kearney, Mark Creamer, Ric Marshall and Anne Goyne

Brigadier Jim Shelton, (Retd)

Only One River to Cross: An Australian Soldier Behind Enemy Lines in Korea
by Dr A.M. Harris

Dr Hugh Smith:

Australian and US Military Co-operation: Fighting Common Enemies
by Dr Christopher Hubbard

Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War by Dr Hugo Slim

Sexing It Up: Iraq, Intelligence and Australia by Geoffrey Barker

True Believer: John Howard, George Bush and the American Alliance by Robert Garran

Ric Smith:

Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present
by Michael B. Oren

Dr Kathryn Spurling

Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army by Kayla Williams

Dr Peter Stanley:

Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War by Cameron Forbes

Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings

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

The Somme by Professor Robin Prior and Dr Trevor Wilson

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stevenson:

Gallipoli: An Australian Encyclopedia of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign by Ron Austin

Dr Alan Stephens:

The Battle of Long Tan: As Told by the Commanders to Bob Grandin by Bob Grandin

T

Max Tapping:

The Long, Slow Death of White Australia by Dr Gwenda Tavan

Dr Mark Thomson:

The Defence Theory of Relativity by Brigadier Brian Cooper

Michael Thwaites:

From Gallipoli to Gaza: The Desert Poets of World War I by Jill Hamilton

Dr Michael Tyquin:

Backs to the Wall: A Larrikin on the Western Front by George Dean Mitchell
with a foreword by Robert Macklin

U

V

W

Tony Watts

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)

Glenn Wahlert:

25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend Was Born by David Cameron

Britain's Greatest Defeat: Singapore, 1942 by Dr Alan Warren

X

Y

Brigadier George Yacoub (Retd)

Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Second Edition)
by Professor Martin van Creveld

Z

 

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