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  • Duntroon

    The Royal Military College of Australia 1911–1986

    by Chris Clark ...
    Series Book 43 - Untapped
    When the Royal Military College of Australia opened on a former sheep station in 1911, it was the first federal institution established in the national capital. The college continues to train the Australian Army’s officer corps even today. First published in 1986, this is the story of a small, sometimes controversial institution and its impact on Australian society, the Canberra community and the ... Read more

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    "The expertly researched biography of the man who created and led the British intelligence organization best known for cracking the Nazi's codes." — Midwest Book ReviewSome of the individuals who played key roles in the success of Bletchley Park in reading the secret communications of Britain's enemies during the Second World War have become well-known figures. However, the man who created and led ... Read more

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  • Jungle Warriors

    From Tobruk to Kokoda and beyond, how the Australian Army became the world's most deadly jungle fighting force

    Australians are acknowledged as being among the best, if not the best, jungle fighters. This fascinating and revealing history explores how the Australian soldier evolved from being trained for and fighting European and desert wars, fought in open country often by large numbers of troops, to the very close warfare of jungle combat.Australians are acknowledged as being among the best, if not the ... Read more

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  • New Zealand's Great War

    New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War

    This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandias Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealands involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, ... Read more

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    The practice of terror in revolutionary Ireland remains a highly controversial topic, which seldom receives either balanced or dispassionate treatment. This collection of essays is designed to illuminate the varied origins, forms and consequences of terror, whether practised by republicans or forces of the Crown. It is the fifth production of the Trinity History Workshop, an informal group of ... Read more

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  • Lost Boys of Anzac

    by Peter Stanley ...
    Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But does anyone know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war? Peter Stanley goes looking for the lost boys of Anzac: the men of the very first wave to land at dawn on 25 April 1915 and who died on that day. There were exactly ... Read more

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  • Invading Australia: Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

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    1942 was a key year in Australia's history. As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour and Australian Militiamen died on the Kokoda Trail.Each year, more and more Australians celebrate Anzac Day and honour the lives of those who fought for ... Read more

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    In 1918 a few daring low-ranking Australian infantrymen, alone among all the armies on the Western Front, initiated stealth raids without orders. These stealth raiders killed Germans, captured prisoners and advanced the line, sometimes by thousands of yards. They were held in high regard by other men of the lower ranks and were feared by the Germans facing them.Who were these stealth raiders and ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Crete

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  • Revealing Secrets

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    What is Australian signals intelligence? Why do we have a national signals intelligence agency and why are our three armed services involved? What do they all do and why is it controversial? And how significant are our ties with, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, the formidable Five Eyes partnership? For a long time, much of the Australian Signals intelligence (or ... Read more

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    The Plane Crash That Destroyed a Government

    by Andrew Tink ...
    In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a Hudson bomber – the A16-97 – carrying ten people, including three cabinet ministers, crashed into a ridge near Canberra. In the ghastly inferno that followed the crash, the nation lost its key war leaders. Over the next twelve months, it became clear that the passing of Geoffrey Street, Sir Henry Gullett and James Fairbairn had ... Read more

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