Book reviews: Alphabetical by title

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

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007, Softback, 324pp., RRP $A29.95

(reviewed by: Glenn Wahlert, published in: Winter 2007)

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A Certain Maritime Incident by Tony Kevin

Scribe, Melbourne, 2004, Softback, 257pp., plus appendices, notes, dramatis personae, glossary & abbreviations, RRP $A32.95

(reviewed by: Tom Frame, published in: Spring 2004)

Australia 2050: An Examination of Australia's Condition, Outlook and Options for the 21st Century by Gregory Copley, Andrew Pickford, Barry Patterson

Future Directions International, Perth WA (and Sid Harta Publishers, Hartwell Victoria), 2007, Softback, 347pp., RRP $A39.95

(reviewed by: Tom Magee, published in: Summer 2007/08)

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Britain's Greatest Defeat: Singapore 1942 by Alan Warren

Humbledon Continuum, London, 2007, Softback, 370pp., RPP $A35.00

(reviewed by: Wahlert Glenn, published in: Summer 2007/08)

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

Routledge Abingdon UK, 2008, Casebound,167pp., RRP $A150.00

(reviewed by: Jack McCaffrie, published in: Summer 2007/08)

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

Australian Military History Publications (and the ARmy History Unit), Loftus NSW, 2007, Casebound and jacketed, xv+259pp., RRP $A45.00

(reviewed by: Bob Breen, published in: Summer 2007/08)

Duty First: A History of the Royal Australian Regiment by David Horner, Jean Bou

Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW, 2008, Casebound and jacketed, 526pp., RPP $A49.95

(reviewed by: Appleton Chris, published in: Summer 2007/08)

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Ethics Education in the Military by Paul Robinson, Nigel de Lee, Don Carrick

Ashgate, Aldershot UK, 2008, Softback, 224pp., RRP $A66.00

(reviewed by: Hugh Smith, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

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Gallipoli: Attack from the Sea by Victor Rudenno

UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008, Softback, 338pp., $A44.95

(reviewed by: Rob Walls, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

Gallipoli Sniper: The Life of Billy Sing by John Hamilton

Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2008, Softback, 331pp., RRP $A34.99

(reviewed by: Kenneth Thomas, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

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HMAS Tobruk: Warship for Every Crisis by Ken Doolan

Grinkle Press, Queanbeyan NSW, 2007, Softback, 157pp., RRP $A33.00

(reviewed by: Leschen Peter, published in: Summer 2007/08)

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

Hurst & Company, London, 2007, Casebound, viii + 319pp., RRP $A60.00

(reviewed by: Hugh Smith, published in: Summer 2007/08)

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Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade by Bill Emmott

Allen Lane, Harmondsworth UK, 2008, Casebound, 336pp., $A49.95

(reviewed by: Andrew Shearer, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

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Song of the Beauforts: No 100 Squadron RAAF and Beaufort Bomber Operations by Colin King

(2nd Edition), RAAF Air Power Development Centre, Canberra, 2008, Softback, 465pp., RRP $A25.00

(reviewed by: Jack McCaffrie, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 by Steven Casey

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, Casebound, xi + 476pp., RRP $A87.50

(reviewed by: Peter Edwards, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

Securing the State: Reforming the National Security Decisionmaking Process at the Civil-Military Nexus by Christopher P. Gibson

Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot UK, 2008, Casebound, 162pp., RRP $A132.00

(reviewed by: Peter Leahy, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

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

Random House, 2008, Softback, 347pp., $A34.95

(reviewed by: Peter Stanley, published in: Spring 2006)

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The Battle for Wau: New Guinea's Frontline 1942-1943 by Phillip Bradley

Cambridge University Press and the Australian Army History Unit, Port Melbourne, 2008, Casebound and jacketed, xvii+285pp., RRP $A75.00

(reviewed by: Michael McKernan, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

The Battle at Ngok Tavak: A Bloody Defeat in South Vietnam, 1968 by Bruce Davies

Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW, 2008, Softback, 242pp., RRP $A29.95

(reviewed by: Bill Deane, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History by Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Ewan Morris, Robin Prior, Jean Bou

(2nd Edition), Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2008, Casebound and jacketed, 634pp., RRP $A79.95

(reviewed by: Neil James, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

The Collins Class Submarine Story: Steel, Spies and Spin by Peter Yule, Derek Woolner

Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, 2008, Casebound and jacketed, 371pp., RRP $A59.95

(reviewed by: James Goldrick, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

The Three-Trillion Dollar War by Joseph Stiglitz, Linda Bilmes

Allen Lane (Penguin), Camberwell Victoria, 2008, Softback, 311pp., RRP $A32.95

(reviewed by: Neil James, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

The Emerging Global Order: Australian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century by Russell Trood

Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, 2008, Softback, 200pp., RRP $A20.00

(reviewed by: Ian Dudgeon, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

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

Scribe, Melbourne, 2007, Softback, 212pp., RRP $A27.95

(reviewed by: John McCarthy, published in: Summer 2007/08)

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, M.P. Sabga

Macmillan, London, 2008, Softback, 3335pp., RRP $A34.95

(reviewed by: Tony Watts, published in: Summer 2007/08)

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Why We're Losing the War on Terror by Paul Rogers

Polity Press, Cambridge UK, 2008, Softback, 177pp., RRP $A24.00

(reviewed by: Brian Agnew, published in: Autumn-Winter 2008)

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