Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to War, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Garry Woodard
Asian Alternatives re-examines Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Now with new foreword.
Academic Monograph
Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to War, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Garry Woodard
Asian Alternatives re-examines Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Now with new foreword.
Academic Monograph
Authors Take Sides: Iraq and the Gulf War [PB] Available
Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Cecil Woolf (eds)
This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the Iraq invasion of 2003.
Beersheba: A Journey through Australia's Forgotten War [PB] Available
Paul Daley
Paul Daley's search for Beersheba takes him from Australia to Israel, from the battlefields to the archives, where he discovers a dark episode that sits at odds with the Anzac myth and legend.
Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8500 Battles from Antiquity to the Twenty-first Century [HB] Available
Tony Jaques
This is the most extensive and comprehensive dictionary of battles and sieges ever published in English, with more than 8500 meticulously researched entries.
The Diggers: Makers of the Australian Military Tradition, Lives from the Australian Dictionary of Biography [HB] Reissued
Selected and condensed by Chris Coulthard-Clark
A fascinating look at the men and women who established the Australian Digger in the annals of world history.
Forged by War: Australians in Combat and Back Home [PB] Available
Gina Lennox
Powerful, personal stories of Australian soldiers and their families.
Manning Clark On Gallipoli, MUP Masterworks #1 [PB] Available
Manning Clark
Manning Clark's History of Australia has been nominated as the most influential work of non-fiction Australia has produced.
MUP Masterworks
The Men of the Line: Stories of the Thai-Burma Railway Survivors [HB] Available
Pattie Wright
The story of the extraordinary engineering feat of the Thai-Burma Railway, told by the men of the Line.
Miegunyah
A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier [HB] Available
Unknown
Discovered at the bottom of a box of books recently donated to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this war journal vividly tells the story of a young World War I soldier and his experiences at the Front in the summer of 1917 in his own words.
On the Warpath: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel [PB] Available
Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce (eds)
This important anthology reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world.
Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom, Paperback Edition [PB] Available
Ray Parkin
Ray Parkin's famous trilogy of wartime experience is published here for the first time in a single paperback volume.
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Second Edition [PB] Available
K. S. Inglis
Foreword by Dr Tom Frame
Awards: The Age Book of the Year 1999
The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Prize 1999
NSW Premier's Literary Awards, History Prize 1999
FAW Literature Award 1998
Ernest Scott History Prize 1999
Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award, Individual Prize 1999
Distinguished historian Ken Inglis argues that Australian war memorials are the shrines of a civil religion.
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Third Edition [PB] Available
K. S. Inglis
New introduction by Jay Winter
Awards: The Age Book of the Year 1999
The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Prize 1999
NSW Premier's Literary Awards, History Prize 1999
FAW Literature Award 1998
Ernest Scott History Prize 1999
Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award, Individual Prize 1999
Distinguished historian Ken Inglis argues that Australian war memorials are the shrines of a civil religion.
