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25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend
Was Born
by David Cameron
(reviewed by Glenn Wahlert)
A
A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in
Papua by Peter Brune
(reviewed by Peter Ryan)
A Certain Maritime Incident: The Sinking of SIEV X by Tony Kevin
(reviewed by Dr Tom Frame)
A Critical Vulnerability:The Impact of
the Submarine Threat on Australia's Maritime Defence 1915-1954 by Dr
David Stevens
(reviewed by Richard Pelvin)
A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea 1950-53
by Dr Richard Trembath
(reviewed by Professor Peter Edwards)
A Doctor's War
by Rowley Richards
(reviewed by Professor Frank Bowden)
Alamein: The Australian Story by Mark
Johnston and Dr Peter Stanley
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
Al Qa'eda: Casting a Shadow of Terror
by Jason Bourke
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)
A Man of Intelligence: The Life of
Captain Eric Nave - Australian Codebreaker Extraordinary
by
Dr Ian Pfennigwerth
(reviewed by Ron Bonighton)
An Atlas of Australia's Wars (Second
Edition) by Lieutenant General John Coates
(reviewed by Neil James)
Against the Odds:
Escapes and Evasions by Allied Airmen, World War II
edited by Murray Adams
(reviewed by Air Commodore Mark Lax)
Alias Chin Peng: My Side of History
by Chin Peng
(reviewed by Professor Peter Edwards)
Alliance: The Inside Story of How
Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill Won One War & Began Another
by
Jonathan Fenby
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
America's Coming War with China: A Collision Course Over Taiwan by
Ted Galen Carpenter
(reviewed by Dr Tom Frame)
Ancient Warfare:
A Very Short Introduction by Professor Harry
Sidebottom
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins
by
Professor Peter Edwards
(reviewed by Neil James)
Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to
War
by Garry Woodard (reviewed by Professor Peter Edwards)
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)
Australian Airborne:
The History and Insignia of Australian Military Parachuting by
John O'Connor
(reviewed by Major David Armit)
Australian and US Military Co-operation:
Fighting Common Enemies by Dr Christopher Hubbard
(reviewed by Dr Hugh Smith)
Australian Defence Almanac 2004-2005
by Raspal Khosa and Dr Mark Thomson
(reviewed by Neil James)
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)
B
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)
Battle Order 204: A Bomber Pilot's Story
by Christobel Mattingley
(reviewed by Dr John McCarthy)
Bean's Gallipoli: The Diaries of
Australia's Official War Correspondent
Edited and annotated by Dr Kevin Fewster
(reviewed by Dr Michael McKernan)
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2005
edited by Russ Radcliffe
(reviewed by Neil James)
Britain's Greatest Defeat: Singapore, 1942 by Dr Alan Warren
(reviewed by Glenn Wahlert)
C
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))
Chased by the Sun: The Australians in
Bomber Command in World War II by Professor Hank Nelson
(reviewed by Squadron Leader Alex Post)
Chester Wilmot Reports by
Neil McDonald
(reviewed by Matt Brown)
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)
Clive Caldwell, Air Ace by Kristen Alexander
(reviewed by Air Commodore Mark Lax)
Command in Vietnam: Reflections of a
Commanding Officer by Colonel F. Peter Scott
(reviewed by Brigadier John Essex-Clark)
Cosgrove: Portrait of a Leader by
Patrick Lindsay
(reviewed by Neil James)
D
Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian
Wilkinson
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
D-Day: The Greatest Invasion A People's History by Dan Van Der Vat
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks by Leigh
Sales
(reviewed by Neil James)
Doves
Over the Pacific: In Pursuit of Peace and Stability in Bougainville
by Reuben R. E. Bowd
(reviewed by Dr Bob Breen)
Duty First: A History of the Royal Australian Regiment by Professor
David Horner and Dr Jean Bou
(reviewed by Brigadier Chris Appleton (Retd)
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of
Suicide Terrorism by Dr Robert
Pape
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)
E
Essays on Australian Defence
by Professor Paul Dibb
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
F
Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan by Dr Daniel Oakman
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
From Gallipoli to Gaza: The Desert Poets of World War I by Jill Hamilton
(reviewed by Michael Thwaites)
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure
in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
(reviewed by Patrick Gallagher)
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)
G
Gallipoli: An Australian Encyclopedia of
the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign by
Ron Austin
(reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stevenson)
Gallipoli: The Pilgrimage Guide by
Garrie Hutchinson
(reviewed by Dr Karl James)
Gallipoli: The Turkish Story by Kevin
Fewster, Vecihi Ballarin and Hatice Hurmuz
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
Game to the Last:
The 11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli by
James Hurst
(reviewed by John Donovan)
General Peter Cosgrove: My Story by
General Peter Cosgrove (Retd)
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
Going Back: Australian Veterans Return to
Viet Nam by Gary McKay
(reviewed by Dr Michael McKernan)
Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You: The Fatal Charge of the Light Horse,
Gallipoli, August 7th, 1915
by John Hamilton
(reviewed by Dr Michael McKernan)
Guests of the Ayatollah: The West's First
Battle in the War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
(reviewed by Neil James)
H
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)
Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan
and the Prisoners of War
by Cameron Forbes
(reviewed by Dr Peter Stanley)
HMAS Tobruk: Warship For Every Crisis by Rear Admiral Ken Doolan
(Retd)
(reviewed by Commodore Peter Leschen)
Horseman, Pass By: The Australian Light Horse in World War I by Lindsay Baly
(reviewed by Neil James)
House of War: The Pentagon and the
Disastrous Rise of American Power by James Carroll
(reviewed by Dr Tom Frame)
Howard's War by Alison Broinowski
(reviewed by Neil James)
I
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside
Bagdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
(reviewed by Neil James)
Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam by Dr Greg
Barton
(reviewed by
Tony LeRay-Meyer)
Inside the Global Jihad: How I
Infiltrated Al Qa'eda and was Abandoned by Western Intelligence
by
Omar Nasiri
(reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)
International Terrorism:
New Zealand Perspectives edited by Associate Professor James Veitch
(reviewed by Cameron Crouch)
In the Shadow of Swords:
On the Trail of Terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia
by Sally Neighbour (reviewed by Tony LeRay-Meyer)
Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology by Graham Seal
(reviewed by Professor Jeffrey Grey)
J
Jacka VC: Australian Hero by
Robert Macklin
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
K
Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War by Dr Hugo
Slim
(review essay by Dr Hugh Smith)
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)
Krazy Hor: A Soldier's Story
by Stan Krasnoff
(reviewed by Brigadier John Essex-Clark (Retd))
L
Living By The Sword: The Ethics of Armed Intervention by Dr Tom Frame
(reviewed by Neil James)
Love My Rifle More Than You:
Young and Female in the US Army
by Kayla Williams
(reviewed by Dr Kathryn Spurling)
M
Mad Harry: Australia's Most Decorated Soldier by George Franki and Clyde Slatyer
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
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)
N
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
by Max Hastings
(reviewed by Dr Peter Stanley)
No Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Royal Australian Navy by Dr Tom Frame
(reviewed by Dr Sam Bateman)
O
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
by Captain Nathaniel Fick, USMC
(reviewed by Ian Kuring)
Only One River to Cross:
An Australian Soldier Behind Enemy Lines in Korea
by Dr A.M. Harris
(reviewed by Brigadier Jim Shelton, Retd)
Operation Orders: The Experience of a
Young Australian Army Officer 1963 to 1970
by Brigadier Pat Beale (Retd)
(reviewed by Neil James)
Other People's Wars: A History of
Australian Peacekeeping by Dr
Peter Londey
(reviewed by Neil James)
On Shaggy Ridge: The Australian Seventh
Division in the Ramu Valley - From Kaiapit to the Finisterres
by Phillip Bradley
(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))
On the Warpath: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel by
Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce (Editors)
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
P
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)
Pilgrimage: A Traveller's Guide to Australia's Battlefields
by Garrie Hutchinson
(reviewed by Dr Karl James)
Plunging Point: Intelligence Failures,
Cover-ups and Consequences
by Lance Collins and Warren Reed
(reviewed by Neil James)
Possums & Bird Dogs: Australian Army Aviation's 161 Reconnaissance
Flight in South Vietnam
by Peter Nolan
(reviewed by Major General Mike O 'Brien (Retd))
Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the
Middle East 1776 to the Present by Michael B. Oren
(a review essay by Ric Smith)
Q
Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli
by
Dr Peter Stanley
(reviewed by Major General Mike O'Brien (Retd))
R
Redcoats to Cams: A History of Australian Infantry 1788 to 2001 by Ian Kuring
(reviewed by Neil James)
Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East
Timor
by Clinton Fernandes (reviewed by Dr Brian Ridge)
Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region by T.J.
Pempel (Editor)
(reviewed by Professor Robyn Lim)
Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War by
Bruce Scates
(reviewed by Dr Karl James)
Righteous Violence: The Ethics and
Politics of Military Intervention
edited by Professor Tony Coady and Dr Michael O'Keefe
(reviewed by Dr Tom Frame)
Ruxton: A Biography
by Anne Blair
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
S
Saving Australia: Curtin's Secret Peace
With Japan by
Bob Wurth
(reviewed by Dr Michael McKernan)
Sexing It Up: Iraq, Intelligence and
Australia by Geoffrey Barker
(reviewed by Dr Hugh Smith)
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))
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)
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)
Strategic Command:
General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars
by Professor David Horner
(reviewed by Professor Jeffrey Grey)
Strategic Cousins: Australian and
Canadian Expeditionary Forces and the British and American Empires
by Dr John Blaxland
(reviewed by Neil James)
Striking Back:
The 1972 Munich Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response by
Aaron J. Klein
(reviewed by Ted Lapkin)
State-Building, Governance and World Order in the Twenty-First Century
by Francis Fukuyama
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Second Edition) by
Professor Martin van Creveld
(reviewed by Brigadier George Yacoub (Retd))
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot
Cohen
(reviewed by Bill Deane)
T
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)
The Amazing SAS:
The Inside Story of Australia's Special Forces
by Ian McPhedran
(reviewed by Stuart Ellis)
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
(reviewed by Neil James)
The Battle History of the Royal New South Wales Regiment: Volume I,
18851918
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, 19391945
by
Major General Gordon L. Maitland (Retd)
(reviewed by Brigadier Phil Carey (Retd))
The Battle of ANZAC Ridge: 25 April 1915
by Peter Williams
(reviewed by John Donovan)
The Battle of Long Tan: As Told by the Commanders to Bob Grandin
by Bob Grandin
(reviewed by Dr
Alan Stephens)
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 Cambridge History of Warfare
edited
by Professor Geoffrey Parker
(reviewed by Professor Peter Dennis)
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)
The Cruel Legacy:
The HMAS Voyager Tragedy by Dr Tom Frame
(reviewed by Dr Ian Pfennigwerth)
The Defence Theory of Relativity by
Brigadier Brian Cooper
(Reviewed by Dr Mark Thomson)
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)
The
First Day of the Blitz, September 7, 1940 by Peter Stansky
(reviewed by Dr John McCarthy)
The First World War: A New Illustrated
History by Professor Hew Strachan
(reviewed by Neil James)
The Geopolitics of East Asia: The Search for Equilibrium by Professor Robyn Lim
(reviewed by Neil James)
The Great War by Les Carlyon
(reviewed by Professor Jeffrey Grey)
The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy
in Asia 1996-2006 by Professor Michael Wesley
(a review essay by Graeme Dobell)
The Interrogators:
Task Force 500 and America's Secret War Against Al Qa'eda
by Chris Mackey and Greg Miller
(reviewed by Neil James)
The Long, Slow Death of White Australia by Dr Gwenda Tavan
(reviewed by Max Tapping)
The Men Who Persevered:
The AATVThe Most Highly Decorated Australian Unit of the Viet Nam War
by Bruce Davies and Gary Mackay
(reviewed by Ian Kuring)
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))
The Once and Future Army: A History of the Citizen Military Forces,
1947-1974
by Dr Dayton McCarthy
(reviewed by Neil James)
The Oxford History of Modern War
edited by Professor Charles Townsend
(reviewed by Professor Peter Dennis)
The Partnership: The Inside Story of the
US-Australian Alliance Under Bush and Howard
by Greg Sheridan
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
The President, The Pope and the Prime
Minister by John O'Sullivan
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
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))
The Return of the Exiles: Australia's
Repatriation of the Indonesians 194547
by Frank Bennett
(reviewed by Professor Jamie Mackie)
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)
The Royal Australian Navy in World War II (Second Edition)
by Dr David Stephens (Editor)
(reviewed by Rear Admiral David Campbell, RAN (Retd))
The Silent 7th: An Illustrated History of the 7th Australian Division
by Dr
Mark Johnston
(reviewed by Neil James)
The Somme by
Professor Robin Prior and Dr
Trevor Wilson
(reviewed by Dr Peter Stanley)
The Spirit of the Digger: Then & Now
by Patrick Lindsay
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
The Spirit of Kokoda Then and Now by
Patrick Lindsay
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
The Strength of a Nation by Dr
Michael McKernan
(reviewed by Commodore Jack McCaffrie (Retd))
The Third Force: ANGAU's New Guinea War 194246 by Alan Powell
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
The Torch and the Sword: A History of the
Army Cadet Movement in Australia
by
Dr Craig Stockings
(reviewed by Dr Jean Bou)
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu
Ghraib
by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel (Editors)
(reviewed by Dr Paul Monk)
Through Enemy Eyes by
Dave Sabben
(reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Lance Collins, (Retd))
Thunder From the Silent Zone:
Rethinking China by Dr Paul Monk
(reviewed by Dr Brian Ridge)
Tobruk 1941 by
Peter Cochrane
(reviewed by Bill Deane)
To Villers-Bretonneux: With
Brigadier-General William Glasgow, DSO, and the 13th Australian Infantry
Brigade by
Peter Edgar
(reviewed by Neil James)
True Believer: John Howard, George Bush and the American Alliance
by Robert Garran
(reviewed by Dr Hugh Smith)
U
Unintended Consequences: The United
States at War
by Professor Emeritus Kenneth J. Hagan and Associate Professor Ian J. Bickerton
(reviewed by Jamie Cullens)
V
Vets at War:
A History of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps 1909-1946 by
Ian M. Parsonson
(reviewed by Dr Malcolm Kennedy)
Visions of Victory:
The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders by
Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg
(reviewed by Michael O'Connor)
W
War: The Lethal Custom (Second Edition)
by Dr Gwynne Dyer
(reviewed by Brigadier Justin Kelly)
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