August in Kabul

America’s last days in Afghanistan

 Andrew Quilty

Carlton VIC: Melbourne University Press, 2022

Paperback   304pp   RRP $34.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, September 2022

Our Exceptional Friend

Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States

Emma Shortis

Richmond, Vic: Hardie Grant Books, 2021

Paperback   288pp   RRP $32.99

Reviewer: Bruce Brown, September 2022  

Dasher

The Kevin Wheatley VC Story

Michael C Madden

Crows Nest, NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2021

Paperback   324pp   RRP $29.99

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, August 2022

Survivor

Life in the SAS

Mark Wales

Sydney, NSW: Pan Macmillan, 2021

Paperback   368pp   RRP $35.00

Reviewer: Kevan Sanderson, August 2022

Eight Hundred Heroes

China’s Lost Battalion and the Fall of Shanghai

Stephen Robinson

Gosford, NSW: Exisle Publishing, 2022

Hardcover   304pp   RRP $49.99

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, August 2022

The Ledger

Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan

David Kilcullen and Greg Mills

Sydney, NSW: New South Books, 2021

Paperback   368pp   RRP $29.99

Reviewer: Roger Buxton, September 2022

On Operations

Operational Art and Military Disciplines

B. A. Friedman

Annapolis, Maryland, US: Naval Institute Press, 2021

Hardcover.  256pp   RRP $56.43

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, August 2022

The Royal Australian Air Force in South Australia during WWII

Adelaide - Gawler - Mallala - Mount Gambier - Parafield - Port Pirie - Victor Harbor

Peter Ingham

Avonmore Books, 2021 Paperback    96pp     RRP $30.00

 Reviewer: Neville Taylor, July 2022

A Short History of War

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Jeremy Black

New Haven, Connecticut, US: Yale University Press, 2021

Hardback    272pp     RRP $30.95

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, May 2022

Under Beijing's Shadow

Southeast Asia's China Challenge

Murray Hiebert

Lanham, Maryland US: Roman & Littlefield, 2020

Hardcover, 608 pages  RRP $76.14

Reviewer: Bruce Brown, June 2022

Mau Mau Whitewash – Britain Slandered

A Critique of the Revisionist Account of Mau Mau

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Lee Boldeman

Brisbane, QLD: Copyright Publishing, 2021

Paperback   376pp   RRP $49.50

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, May 2022

Keith Payne VC

No One Left Behind

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Keith Payne VC

Sydney, NSW: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021

Hardback   448pp   RRP $49.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, April 2022

Operation Pedestal

The Fleet that Battled to Malta, 1942

Max Hastings

London: William Collins, 2021

Hardback    464pp     RRP $35.00

Reviewer: Brian Surtees, May 2022

Morrison’s Mission

How a beginner reshaped Australian Foreign policy

Paul Kelly

North Sydney, NSW: Penguin, 2022

Paperback   256pp   RRP $12.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, May 2022

Save Our Sons

Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War

Carolyn Collins

Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Publishing 2021

Paperback   360pp   RRP $34.95

Reviewer: Robert Dixon, June 2022

Sad Joys on Deployment

Greg Bruce

Canary Wharf, London UK: Austin Macauley Publishers, 2020

Paperback    176pp   RRP $19.75

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, May 2022

The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory

Passchendaele and the ANZAC Legend

Matthew Haultain-Gall

Clayton, Vic: Monash University Publishing, 2021

Paperback   336pp   RRP $34.95

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, March 2022

Soldiers and Aliens

Men in the Australian Army’s Employment Companies

during World War II

June Factor

Carlton, VIC: Melbourne University Press, 2022

Paperback   352pp   RRP $39.99

Reviewer: Mike O’Brien, May 2022

The Sailor’s Bookshelf

Fifty Books to Know the Sea

James Stavridis

Annapolis, MA, USA: Annapolis Institute Press, 2021

Hardcover   232pp   RRP $69.25

Reviewer: Roger Buxton, March 2022

The Emperor’s Grace

Untold Stories of Australians Enslaved in Japan during WWII

Mark Baker

Clayton, Vic: Monash University Publishing, 2021

Paperback   208pp   RRP $34.96

Reviewer: Robert Dixon, March 2022

Aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force

RAAF

Newport, NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2021

Hardback     640pp   RRP $59.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, February 2022

Vera Deakin and the Red Cross

Carole Woods

Melbourne: Melbourne: Royal Historical Society Victoria, 2020

Hardcover.   RRP $35.00

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, March 2022

Bastard Behind the Lines

The extraordinary story of Jock McLaren's escape from Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese

Tom Gilling

Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin 2021

Paperback   256pp    RRP $29.99

Reviewer: Mike O’Brien, December 2021

Not Playing the Game

Sport and Australia’s Great War

Xavier Fowler

Carlton, VIC: Melbourne University Press, 2021

Softcover     288pp   RRP $39.99

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, January 2022

Edith Blake's War

The only Australian Nurse killed in action in the First World War

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Krista Vane-Tempest

Kensington, NSW: New South Books, 2021

Paperback   336pp   RRP $34.99

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, January 2022

Passchendaele

A New History

Nick Lloyd

London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017

Paperback    464pp    RRP $23.75

Reviewer: Mike O’Brien, January 2022​

Failures of Command

The death of Private Robert Poate

Hugh Poate

Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2021

Paperback 368pp  RRP $34.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, March 2022

The Battle for Shaggy Ridge

The extraordinary story of the Australian campaign against the Japanese in New Guinea's Finisterre mountains in 1943-44

Phillip Bradley

Allen & Unwin, 2021

Paperback      328pp      RRP $32.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, February 2022

Blood Lust, Trust & Blame

In the National Interest Series

Samantha Crompvoets

Clayton, Vic: Monash University Publishing, 2021

Paperback    96pp   RRP $19.95

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, October 2021

When He Came Home

The Impact of War on Partners and Children of Veterans

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Dianne Dempsey

Sydney, NSW: Arcadia, 2021

Paperback   448pp   RRP $29.95

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, January 2022

Courage Under Fire

An extraordinary soldier, an extraordinary day, a lifelong legacy

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Daniel Keighran VC with Tony Park

Sydney, NSW: Pan Macmillan, 2020

Hardback   384pp   RRP $44.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, October 2021

Mosul

Australia's secret war inside the ISIS caliphate

Ben Mckelvey

Sydney, NSW: Hachette, 2020

Paperback   352pp   RRP $34.99

Reviewer: Roger Buxton, March 2022

Island off the Coast of Asia

Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy

Clinton Fernandes

Clayton, Vic: Monash University Publishing, 2018

Paperback.  236pp  RRP $29.95

Reviewer: Bruce Brown, November 2021

 Pacific Adversaries

Japanese Army Air Force and the Imperial Japanese Navy vs The Allies

Volumes 1 to 4

Michael John Claringbould

Kent Town, South Australia: Avonmore Books, 2019 - 2021

Reviewer:  Neville Taylor, November 2021

Letters to Lily Vale

The life and letters of Ernest Latchford MC MBE

in France, Persia, and Russia, 1916-1919

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Mark Latchford

St Marys, SA: Openbook Howden, 2020

Paperback   328pp   RRP $30.00

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, October 2021

Teddy Sheean VC

A Selfless Act of Valour

Tom Lewis

Newport, NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2021

Paperback    180pp     RRP $29.99

Reviewer: Roger Buxton, August 2021

Military Justice Handbook

Second Edition

Anthony Paphitti

Havant, United Kingdom: Howgate Publishing Limited, 2021

Paperback    820pp    RRP $193.91

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, July 2021

The Art of Sacrifice

George Petrou OAM

Crows Nest, NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2021

Hardcover   400pp   RRP $69.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, November 2021

A Narrative of Denial

Australia and the Indonesian Violation of East Timor

​Peter Job

Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2021

Paperback.  368pp.   RRP $39.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, June 2021

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea

The Forgotten Battle that Saved the Pacific

Michael Veitch

Sydney, NSW: Hachette, 2021

Paperback   352pp   RRP $32.99

Reviewer: Robert Dixon, November 2021

Mine Warfare

1st Australian Task Force’s Struggle for South Vietnam

Australian Army Combat Support Series No 3

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Andrew Ross

Crows Nest NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2021

Paperback   160pp   RRP $19.99

Reviewer: Mike O’Brien, July 2021

The Bomber Mafia

A Story Set in War

Malcolm Gladwell

London: Allen Lane, 2021

Paperback     256pp  RRP $35.00

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, August 2021

On Contested Shores

The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare

Timothy Heck and B A Friedman (Eds)

Quantico, Virginia USA: Marine Corps University Press 2020

Paperback   430pp    RRP $60.00

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, June 2021

Tragedy at Évian

How the world allowed Hitler to proceed with the Holocaust

Tony Matthews

Big Sky Publishing, 2020

Paperback   456pp   RRP $34.99

Reviewer: Kevan Sanderson, July 2021

Spinning the Secrets of State

Politics and Intelligence in Australia

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Justin T McPhee

Clayton, Vic: Monash University Publishing,

September 2020
Paperback   272pp   RRP $34.95

Reviewer: Bruce Brown, July 2021

Derrick VC in his own words

The wartime writings of Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II 
 

Mark Johnston (Ed)

Moss Vale, NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2021

Paperback    448pp   RRP$39.99

Reviewer: Neville Taylor, July 2021

Tarra

The story of a small ship that significantly impacted the Australian Army

Jack Peel

Crows Nest, NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2020

Paperback   188pp   RRP $24.99

Reviewer: Roger Buxton, June 2021

Missing:

The Need for Closure after the Great War,

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Richard van Emden,

Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2019.

Hardback (292 pp, £20.00)

Reviewer - Mike O'Brien

Traitors and Spies

Espionage and Corruption in High Places in Australia, 1901-50

John Fahey

Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2020

Paperback  448pp   RRP $34.99

Reviewer: Bruce Brown, June 2021

Phillip Schuler

The remarkable life of one of Australia's greatest war correspondents

Mark Baker

Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2016

Paperback   352pp   RRP $32.99

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, June 2021

Staring at God:

Britain in the Great War,

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Simon Heffer,

London: Windmill Books, 2019.

(914 p, RRP $35)

 Reviewed by Mike O''Brien

The Platoon Commander

The extraordinary story of the man who led

Australia’s most decorated platoon in Vietnam

John O’Halloran with Rick Teague

Sydney, NSW: Hachette, 2021

Paperback   352pp   RRP $34.99

Reviewer: RUSI – Vic, June 2021

You Don’t Belong Here

How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War

Elizabeth Becker

Carlton, Victoria: Black Inc., 2021

Paperback   320pp   RRP $32.99

Reviewer: Rob Ellis, June 2021