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Published by Australian Army History Unit. Canberra. ., 2011
ISBN 10: 1921941154ISBN 13: 9781921941153
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
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4th edition, updated from the 1987 original by the late Brigadier M. Austin. 96 PP with 11 maps in colour, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.
Published by Big Sky Publishing Pty Ltd, for the Australian Army History Unit, New South Wales, 2011. 4th edition., 2011
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
4to (29.5x21cm), paperback, 96pp. Good condition. Light wear, a little bumped, light scuff marks. With maps, b&w and colour photographs. Pictures available on request.
Published by Army History Unit with Australian Military History Publications, Sydney, 2005
ISBN 10: 1876439947ISBN 13: 9781876439941
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardback. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT copy in like Dustjacket. A New Copy. Dustjacket protected in plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 224 pages. A history of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps, which was formed in 1909 and phased out in 1946, when the Army became fully mechanised.
Published by Big Sky Publishing/Australian Army History Unit, 2012. ISBN 9781921941481., 2012
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Card covers (pbk), octavo, xpp/210pp, colour photos (mainly). New copy. In 1994, an orgy of killing swept across the tiny land-locked nation of Rwanda and genocide - the size and magnitude unseen since the Hitler horrors of WWII, erupted. Around one million men, women and children were mercilessly shot, hacked to death or burnt alive.To alleviate the suffering and restore order to shattered lives, a group of Australian UN peacekeepers was sent to Rwanda as part of the 2nd United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR II). These Australians would be exposed to a lack of humanity they were not prepared for and found hard to fathom. On 22 April 1995, the daily horror and tragedy they had witnessed escalated out of control. At a displaced persons camp in Kibeho, in full view of the Australian soldiers, over 4,000 unarmed men, women and children died in a hail of bullets, grenades and machete blades at the hands of the Rwandan Patriotic Army. Constrained by UN peacekeeping Rules of Engagement, these Australians could only watch helplessly and try to assist the wounded under the gaze of the trigger-happy killers.This book is a detailed account of what happened during the peacekeeping mission. Kevin OHalloran, a Platoon Sergeant at the time, has recorded these events using material from numerous interviews and eyewitness accounts.
Published by Australian Army History Unit Canberra 2009, 2009
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition stiff wrappers As New lge. octavo 253pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, Australian Army Campaigns Series. When Imperial Japan unleashed the Pacific War in December 1941, Australian forces went into action, as part of a larger British Empire force, to defend Malaya and Singapore.
Published by Australian Army History Unit Canberra 2011, 2011
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
reprint stiff wrappers As New lge. octavo 253pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, Australian Army Campaigns Series. When Imperial Japan unleashed the Pacific War in December 1941, Australian forces went into action, as part of a larger British Empire force, to defend Malaya and Singapore.
Published by Australian Army History Unit/Big Sky Publishing, NSW, 2014. ISBN 9780987427915., 2014
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, xxiv/228pp, b&w photos. Light wear to dw edges; a near fine copy. In 1943 a top secret consignment of chemical weapons, including deadly mustard gas, arrived in Australia by ship. But there was a problem - it was leaking. Military authorities quickly realised this but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected and unsuspecting wharf labourers into a lethal environment. The result was catastrophic: permanent disability and death. This shocking narrative includes accounts of official deceit, intimidation of gassed labourers and denial of natural justice. The truth, buried in classified documents and the testimony of the few survivors, is that human life was sacrificed for the sake of secrecy. Almost 70 years after war stocks of chemical weapons were apparently totally destroyed, mustard gas is still present on the Australian mainland, in her oceans and along her coastal fringes. The total destruction of chemical stocks is simply another military assumption. The truth is that these deadly weapons were incompletely destroyed, buried or simply lost. Many retain their effectiveness despite the passing of time, a fact that cost one man his life and saw staff and children at a school badly burned in 1964. Mustard gas weapons have been retrieved as recently as 2012 and more may lie in shallow graves waiting to be uncovered. This is a very real lesson for the military of today.
Published by Australian Military History Publications / Army History Unit, 2001
ISBN 10: 1876439149ISBN 13: 9781876439149
Seller: Lectioz Books, Gloucester, NSW, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Jacket has light general wear plus a 2cm tear and short crease to top front corner. Book very clean. Binding tight. Includes CD. 435pp Size: 180mm x 255mm. Book.
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Published by Australian Military History Publications / Australian Army History Unit, Loftus, NSW, 2009
ISBN 10: 0980475325ISBN 13: 9780980475326
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Hardback large tall octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour & black & white & single-colour illustrations (including front & rear jacket), maps, minor edgewear jacket. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 242 pp. On 3 December 1854 a battle between gold miners, soldiers and police raged for twenty minutes at the Eureka Lead in Ballarat, in the Victorian goldfields. This book, for the first time, looks at the actual military events that unfolded during the battle. Gregory Blake argues convincingly that Eureka was not a massacre, as it has been portrayed. Rather, it was a hard fought military engagement. This book brings the battle to life in an original manner.
Published by Big Sky Publishing for the Australian Army History Unit, 2015. ISBN 9781925275001., 2015
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, 318pp, b&w photos, maps and illustrations. A new copy - mint condition. The century that has elapsed since the 1915 Dardanelles campaign has done little to quell the debate that rages over its inglorious end. The origins of the campaign are likewise the subject of ongoing scrutiny, particularly the role of First Sea Lord Winston Churchill, with whom the ill-fated campaign has been closely identified. Tom Curran presents a detailed examination of Churchills role in the decision-making process that led to the Gallipoli landings, and casts new light on the lead-up to a campaign that would profoundly affect Australian military history. He portrays Churchill as disingenuous and interfering, a man who disregarded the advice of his commanders to champion a risky military enterprise. With the spectre of failure looming large, he attempted to shift ultimate blame for the fiasco to Admiral Jackie Fisher and General Horatio Kitchener in a bid to salvage his political career, obscuring his own role by rewriting the history of the campaign. Currans hard-hitting account reveals the machinations behind the campaign, his research creating a new perspective on an extraordinary period of history. For the first time, the story of Churchills role in the Dardanelles campaign is told in its entirety, adding a crucial chapter to the chronicle of Australias baptism of fire.
Published by Big Sky Publishing NSW, for the Australian Army History Unit, 2016., 2016
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, 348pp, b&w photos, maps. Near fine. Malaria has been the scourge of armies throughout history. Malaria thwarted the efforts of Alexander the Great to conquer India in the 4th century BC and frustrated Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan to rule Europe in the 4th and 13th centuries AD; and it stymied Napoleon's plan to conquer Syria at the end of the 18th century. Malaria has also been the Australian Armys continuing foe in almost all its overseas deployments since the Army formed at Federation. On at least three occasions malaria has halted the Army, bringing it to a standstill and threatening defeat. The first was in Syria in 1918, when a malaria epidemic cut a swathe through the Australian-led Desert Mounted Corps. The second was in New Guinea in 1942-43. The third time was in Vietnam in 1968, when malaria caused more casualties than did enemy action. The Army's struggle against the disease has continued for 115 years as virtually all the Armys overseas deployments are to malarious regions. This book tells the story of the Armys long struggle against malaria.
Published by Australian Military History Publications / Australian Army History Unit, Loftus, NSW, 2010
ISBN 10: 0980567432ISBN 13: 9780980567434
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Facsimile ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket 323 pp. A biography of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Green, DSO, by his wife Olwyn Green. He trained in 41 Militia Battalion in the 1930s and then joined the newly-formed AIF in 1939. He was appointed as an officer to 2/2 Infantry Battalion (6 Division) and sent to the Middle East. After the early campaigns along the African north coast, the division was sent to Greece where Green was involved in the fighting withdrawal against the Germans. He escaped to Turkey before he could be captured. He was appointed CO of 2/11 Infantry Battalion and led them in the North New Guinea campaigns. He had a spell as a post-war civilian, and then rejoined the army and as Lieutenant-Colonel Green, and took 3RAR to the Korean War in 1950. He led the battalion successfully in a difficult battle in North Korea where he took a stray shell mortally wounding him. His wife Olwyn Green wrote this book (originally published in 1993) to help her to understand Charlie's military career which she had never fully appreciated. Olwyn traces his story through interviews with his fighting companions and from letters he wrote home to her. Her long search has produced an inspiring picture of the fine simple man who became an outstanding military leader, lost by chance, in a distant war. Facsimile edition.
Published by Big Sky Publishing/Australian Army History Unit, 2016. ISBN 9781925275834., 2016
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, 706pp, b&w photos. Light shelf wear; a fine copy. Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. This tells the gritty story of military detention and punishment with a focus on the system rather than the individual soldier. World War I was Australia's first experience of a mass army and the detention experience was complex, encompassing short and long-term detention, from punishment in the field to incarceration in British and Australian military detention facilities. The World War II experience was similarly complex, with detention facilities in England, Palestine and Malaya, mainland Australia and New Guinea. Eventually the management of army detention would become the purview of an independent, specialist service. With the end of the war, the army reconsidered detention and, based on lessons learned, established a single `corrective establishment', its emphasis on rehabilitation.
Published by Australian Army History Unit/Australian Military History Publications 2003. ISBN 1876439513., 2003
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, 141pp, b&w photos. A new copy. Beale served in South-east Asia and Papua New Guinea. He was involved in anti-terrorist activities in Malaysia, action in Borneo during confrontation and then Vietnam with a Special Forces Unit. As well as telling of his own operations, Beale uses his own experiences to explore the old demons of combat stress, fear and fatigue and their interaction with courage and teamwork.
Published by Australian Army History Unit / AMHP 2005., 2005
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper large 8vo 224pp b&w photos maps. Previous owner's signature top right of front fep (Jeff Grey) otherwise a fine copy. The main focus of this history is the work of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps during WWI at Gallipoli, Egypt and in France. As well as covering the work of the AAVC, this history includes details of animal wastage and disease, and the disposal of horses and other animals following the Armistice. As appendices, includes list of veterinary officers in South Africa 1899-1902; details of colonial contingents to the South African War; horse shipments; and veterinary officer list 1914-18.
Published by AMHP in association with Australian Army History Unit 1st edition 2004. ISBN 1876439521., 2004
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper 124pp b&w photos. A fine copy. The author tells of his experience with the occupation force in Japan after WWII and his service with 3RAR in Korea, up until he was wounded. Competent in Japanese and Chinese, Harris returned to Korea in 1953 and was placed in command of a Special Agent Detachment whose task was the infiltration of intelligence agents into enemy territory. He and his agents made ten successful penetrations until he was wounded. Intensely personal account of one man's war.
Published by Australian Military History Press / Army History Unit 2007. ISBN 1876439955., 2007
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper 221pp. B&w photos and maps. A fine copy. Argues that the Australians and New Zealanders of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps won a significant victory on the first day of the Gallipoli Campaign against the III Ottomon Corps. Drawing on both Turkish and German sources, Williams has examined the Anzac Ridge battle with the Cape Helles landing, other battles of the Great War and amphibious operations throughout history. The result is a challenging of a cherished myth. But, rather than just challenge and demolish, Williams has left in its stead new insights into the Gallipoli plan, the intelligence gathered beforehand, the quality of the troops, the importance of the Ottoman artillery and the casualties suffered on both sides.
Published by Big Sky Publishing for the Australian Army History Unit, 2014. ISBN 9781922132970., 2014
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, 417pp, b&w photos, maps and illustrations. New copy. At the head of each AIF unit in the Great War was the Commanding Officer or CO - the lieutenant colonel who commanded the men, trained them, led them into action and rebuilt the unit following its time in the front line. There are myriad accounts and histories of divisions, brigades and battalions, of battles and actions great and small, some of which name the CO of a battalion, while others do not. The Official Histories, the various unit war diaries and many of the unit histories are likewise inconsistent, often neglecting to identify the unit s CO. In most AIF combat units age, exhaustion, wounds, death and promotion all contributed to the rotation of battalion and formation COs. By the end of the war, CO appointees for the 60 infantry battalions, 15 light horse regiments, 25 artillery brigades, 5 machine-gun, 5 pioneer, 2 cyclist, 4 camel corps battalions and 5 ammunition columns reached almost 500; the number of individual appointments numbering close to 2000. This book looks at naming all the Commanding Officers who led units into action in the Great War and to describe their lives before and, for those who survived, after the war. From these pages emerge the men who shaped Australia s battlefield history - both the professional soldiers and the former teachers, accountants, salesmen, clerks, farmers and others from a broad range of occupations whose leadership on and off the battlefield proved so crucial.
Published by Australian Army History Unit Canberra 2000, 2000
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
reprint stiff wrappers As New octavo xi + 213pp., Includes: The Black Day of the German Army: Australians and Canadians at Amiens; A Resource Not to be Squandered: The Canadian Corps on the 1918 Battlefield; The BEF's Generals in 29 September 1918: An Empirical Portrait with Some British and Australian Comparisons; The Australian Staff: The Forgotten Men of the First AIF; Defending Australia 1914-1918: The Other Australian Army; & The Way Forward: 1918 and the Implications for the Future.
Published by Australian Military History Publications Loftus in association with the Army History Unit, Department of Defence, Canberra, 2001., 2001
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, 181pp, b&w and some colour photos. New copy. Includes details of establishment and development of the Corps, overseas service, including operations in Antarctica, Somalia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bougainville and East Timor, and a photographic essay on the Corp's equipment.
Published by Canberra; Army History Unit, Department Of Defence/ Australian Military History Publications; 2003., 2003
First Edition; 8vo; pp. xviii, 684; numerous b/w illustrations, appendices, bibliography, list of photographs, list of tables, list of maps, list of figures, index; original cloth, dustjacket, a fine copy. A history of the Royal Australian Army medical Corps in all our conflicts since the Boer war to Vietnam. Covers Hospital to Stretcher-bearers and Units that supported them.
Published by Canberra; Army History Unit, Department of Defence / Australian Military History Publications, 2003., 2003
First Edition
8vo; pp. xviii, 684; numerous b/w illustrations, appendices, bibliography, tables, maps, figures, index; original cloth in dustwrapper, a fine copy. First edition.
Published by Australian Army History Unit, Canberra, 2003
ISBN 10: 1876439157ISBN 13: 9781876439156
Seller: Lectioz Books, Gloucester, NSW, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Jacket has moderate general wear and no tears. Minor creasing to ffep, otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 684pp Size: 185mm x 255mm. Book.
Published by Australian Miliary History Press in association with the Army History Unit Loftus revised 3rd edition 2009. ISBN 9780980475340., 2009
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, folio, 377pp, b&w and colour photos. A fine copy other than previous owner's blind stamp top right of title and contents pages. Includes roll of honour, decorations awards and citations, nominal roll and maps. Essentially a pictorial record, this extensively revised and expanded 3rd edition contains a multitude of photos of the men involved, many contributed by the veterans themselves.