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Reading list
Australian military history books widely available
General
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History. Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Ewan Morris, and Robin Prior eds. South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1995. [Contains detailed articles on many topics. Indexed by subject].
Odgers, George. Diggers: the Australian Army, Navy and Air Force in eleven wars. From 6 June 1944 to 1994. Sydney, Lansdowne Publishing Pty. Ltd., 1994.
Grey, Jeffrey. A military history of Australia (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Australian War Memorial
McKernan, Michael. Here is their spirit: a history of the Australian War Memorial 1917-1990. St. Lucia, Qld, University of Queensland Press in association with the Australian War Memorial, 1991.
Stanley, Peter. A guide to the Australian War Memorial. Sydney, John Ferguson in association with Australian War Memorial, 1986.
Conscription
Engwerda, Robert. Conscription: Australia during World War I. Melbourne, Vic, Education Centre, State Library of Victoria, [1993?]
Victoria Cross
Wigmore, Lionel. They dared mightily. 2nd edition, Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1986
Weapons
Badman, Peter, Alun Evans, Doug Hurst and Bede Jordan. Modern Military: towards 2000. North Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1989.
Before the First World War
Denton, Kit. For Queen and Commonwealth. Sydney, Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1987.
Jones, Ian. The Australian Light Horse. Sydney, Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1987.
The First World War
Denton, Kit. Gallipoli - One Long Grave. Sydney, Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1986.
Evans, Alun. Royal Australian Navy. Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1988.
Jones, Ian. The Australian Light Horse. Sydney, Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1987.
Laffin, John. Western Front 1916-1917: the price of honour. North Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1987.
Laffin, John. Western Front 1917-1918. The cost of victory. Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1988.
Swinton, Joyce. The First World War. Melbourne, Longman Modern History Series, 1995.
The Second World War
Badman, Peter. North Africa 1940-1942: the desert war. Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1988.
Browne, Margaret and Selhofer, Hans. The Kokoda campaign. Lane Cove, N.S.W., Hodder and Stoughton, 1985.
Charlton, Peter. War against Japan 1941-1942. Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1988.
Charlton, Peter. War against Japan 1942-1945. North Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1989.
Clarke, Hugh, Colin Burgess and Russell Braddon. Prisoners of War. North Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1988.
Evans, Alun. Royal Australian Navy. Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1988.
Laffin, John. Greece, Crete and Syria. Surry Hills, NSW, Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1989.
Laffin, John and Peter Badman. Special and Secret. North Sydney, Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1990.
Stanley, Peter. Air Battle over Europe 1939-1945. Sydney, Time-Life Books in association with John Ferguson, 1987.
Korea
Hooker, John. Korea. The Forgotten War. Surry Hills, NSW, Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1989.
Vietnam
Browne, Margaret and Luks, Barry. Vietnam. Lane Cove, N.S.W., Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
Rowe, John. Vietnam: the Australian experience. North Sydney, Time-Life Books Australia in association with John Ferguson, 1987.

