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Articles
The Infantryman's Load
The Permanent Army in Australia up to World War 2
Slouch Hat & Eggshell - The Syrian Campaign 1941

The Army's Birthday - An Ongoing Debate

Australian Army Casualties and VCs

Brief History of 2nd Division

History of the Post War Army (disclaimer as to accuracy)

Matilda Tanks at Retimo on the Island of Crete

Territorial Recruitment of the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War

Turkish Forces for the Defence of Gallipoli
Booklist

Australian Army History Collection
The Royal Australian Corps of Transport - A History of Australian Army Transport 1973-2000
Albert Palazzo
Description    Review
Duntroon - The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-2001
Darren Moore
Description
The Warrior Poets: An Anthology: Poetry of the Australian Army 1901-2001
Compiled by Major Robert Morrison, RAAC
Description
Operation Orders
Pat Beale DSO, MC
Description     Review
The Fight Leaders: A Study of Australian Battlefield Leadership
D. Butler, A. Argent and J. Shelton
Description
Defenders of Australia: The Third Australian Division 1916-1991
Albert Palazzo
Description     Review
Bowler of Gallipoli: Witness to the ANZAC Legend
Frank Glen
Description
A Soldier's Soldier: The Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Carl Herman Jess
Ron Austin
Description
Winning With Intelligence: A Biography of Brigadier John David Rogers, CBE, MC 1895-1978
Judy Thomson
Description
The Fragile Forts: The Fixed Defences of Sydney Harbour 1788-1963
Peter Oppenheim
Description    Review
Only One River To Cross
A. M. Harris
Description
Vets at War
Ian M. Parsonson
Description
To Villers-Bretonneux
Peter Edgar
Description
Madness and the Military: Australia's Experience of the Great War
Michael Tyquin
Description

Army Military History Series
For Hearths and Homes: Citzen soldiering in Australia 1854-1945
Craig Wilcox
Description
The Forgotten Force: The Australian military contribution to the occupation of Japan 1945-1952
James Wood
Description
Online version
Soldiers in Politics: The impact of the military on Australian political life and institutions
Chris Coulthard-Clark
Description
Blamey: The Commander-in-Chief
David Horner
Description
Against the Sun: The AIF in Malaya, 1941-42
Janet Uhr
Description    Review
The Brisbane Line Controversy: Political opportunism versus national security, 1942-45
Paul Burns
Description     Review
Warrior of Kokoda: A biography of Brigadier Arnold Potts
Bill Edgar
Description    Review
Lavarack: Rival General
Brett Lodge
Description     Review

Australian Army History Series
The Paladin
Peter S Sadler
Review
Bravery Above Blunder
John Coates
Description     Review
Australia's Military Map-Makers
Chris Coulthard-Clark
Description
Soldiers of the Queen
Janette Bomford
Description
Sir James Whiteside McCay
Christopher Wray
Description    Review
Morshead
David Coombes
Description
Alamein The Australian Story
Mark Johnston and Peter Stanley
Description
The Australian Army
Albert Palazzo
Description     Review
The Once and Future Army
Dayton McCarthy
Description
Ted Serong
Anne Blair
Description     Review
On Shaggy Ridge
Phillip Bradley
Description
Kokoda Commander
Stuart Braga
Description     Review
The Third Force
Alan Powell
Description
Neville Howse
Michael B Tyquin
Description
The Other Enemy?
Glenn Wahlert
Description
Strategic Command
David Horner
Description
Game to the Last
James Hurst
Description
The Forgotten Force: The Australian military contribution to the occupation of Japan 1945-1952
James Wood
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 - World War II - The Legacies
Chapter 1 Footnotes
Chapter 2 - Australian Participation in the Occupation Force
Chapter 2 Footnotes
Chapter 3 - 'This Abomination of Desolation'
Chapter 3 Footnotes
Chapter 4 - Getting on with the Job
Chapter 4 Footnotes
Chapter 5 - The Representative of the British Commonwealth of Nations
Chapter 5 Footnotes
Chapter 6 - Rest and Recreation
Chapter 6 Footnotes
Chapter 7 - The BCOF: Time for Reappraisal
Chapter 7 Footnotes
Chapter 8 - From Occupying Power to Protective Power 
Chapter 8 Footnotes
Chapter 9 - A Place at the Peace Table
Chapter 9 Footnotes
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HISTORY & BATTLES
battle honours
The 1st Sudan War
The 2nd Boer War
World War One
Australasia
The Dardanelles
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Egypt
Palestine
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Middle East
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WWII - Cavalry, Armoured & Rifles
WWII - Infantry - Bn 1-20 - Bn 21-39 - Bn 40-62
WWII - Machine Gun & Pioneer

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Brigadier General Monash's account of the evacuation from Gallipoli

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history summaries

Colonial Security, the Sudan & the Boer War: 1788 -1902

The Beginnings

The British Garrison

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The Sudan - 1885

Aid to the Civil Power

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World War I - Western Front

World War I - Sinai, Palestine and Syria

Between the Wars

World War II - The Leadup

World War II - Initiation

World War II - The Middle East

World War II - South East Asia 1941-42

World War II - South West Pacific 1941-42

World War II - South West Pacific 1943-45

World War II Army Casualties

Peace, War & Peacekeeping: 1945-1996

Post-War 1945-51

The War in Korea 1950-53

Regional Security 1951 - 55

Malayan Emergency 1955-60

The Pentropic Organisation 1960-65

Indonesian Confrontation 1964-65

National Service 1965-1972

Vietnam War 1962-72

Changing Commitments 1971-77

Peacekeeping 1979-96

The Gulf War 1990-91

To the 21st Century
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