This text brings together all the dimensions of World War I, combining deep scholarship with powerful storytelling, providing lucid insight into the dramatic events, mass grief, and political turmoil that makes the memory of this terrible war central to Australia's history.
A gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. This fascinating and compelling account does full justice to their extraordinary careers and the soldiers under their command.
An eye-opening analysis of the memorialisation of Australia's role on the Western Front and the Anzac mythology that so heavily contributes to Australians' understanding of themselves. This rigorous and richly detailed study challenges accepted historiography by examining the assembly, projection and performance of Australia's national identity in northern France.
This text follows Clausewitz's career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored.
This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control, explaining and analyzing in much greater detail sea control in all its complexities, describing the main methods of obtaining and maintaining it.
This book analyses Indonesia's participation in international maritime security cooperation. Using Indonesia as a case study, the book adopts mixed methods to assess emerging power cooperation and non-cooperation drawing from various International Relations theories and the bureaucratic politics approach.
A fresh reappraisal of Japan’s relationship with the United States, which reveals how the Cold War shaped Japan and transformed America’s understanding of what it takes to establish a postwar democracy.
This book recovers another layer of India's strategic culture that had been largely lost to history. It does this by reconstructing worldviews and strategies that underlay geopolitics during the Nehru and Indira Gandhi years, and illuminating the dramatic transformation in India's foreign policy.