Australasian and Pacific history

In Soldiers and Gentlemen, Westerman explores the stories of the vitally important, yet often forgotten, Australian commanding officers.

Destroy and Build challenges the historiography of the Western forces'' fight against insurgency in Vietnam.

Kokoda: Beyond the Legend provides readers with a complete understanding of this major turning point in the Second World War.

Surveys the encounters between Europeans and the peoples of the Pacific in the age of Enlightenment.

Recounts the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in WWII.

The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana to the twenty-first century.

The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana to the twenty-first century.

Bradley describes the early WWII conflicts in New Guinea.

Using extensive research and Japanese sources, Peter Williams seeks to explain what really happened during the Kokoda Campaign of 1942.

Using extensive research and Japanese sources, Peter Williams seeks to explain what really happened during the Kokoda Campaign of 1942.

This book examines the most expensive and controversial project ever undertaken by the Australian Defence Force.

The first study of Australia''s military operations in the Pacific during 1943 - Australia''s ''finest hour'' in the Second World War.

This book examines the most expensive and controversial project ever undertaken by the Australian Defence Force.

This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia''s deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.

This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia''s deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.

A lively account of the people, places and events that have shaped Victoria with new illustrations, photographs and maps.

Charts the history of pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two through surveys, interviews and fieldwork.

Recounts the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in WWII.

This book explores the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II.

Through photographs and an authoritative text, this book tells the story of the 6th Australian Division.

This book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and peace.

This book explores the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II.

Through photographs and an authoritative text, this book tells the story of the 6th Australian Division.

This book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and peace.

The first history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war AustraliaThis groundbreaking book is a history of the childhood imagination in Australia between 1890 and the outbreak of the Second World War.

An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War.

An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War.

This collection of essays explores the two libel cases (criminal and civil) prosecuted by Rev.

From its origins as a convict chaplaincy to the challenges of expansion today, Sydney Diocese has grown through turbulent years of Church-State controversy and the traumas of economic depression and war.

The diversity of opinions which were held by Anglicans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was, ideally, the ingredients of a unifying comprehensiveness.

Spending her life in Queensland's North West, Beryl has experienced rural floods, fires, droughts and other difficulties that face Australia's inland.

Evangelical Christianity is one of the most formative and least acknowledged movements in Australian history.

Two stories overlap and interweave in this biography of Gumbuli of Ngukurr.

The first volume of the biography of Mr Thomas Moore, Esq.

A biography of Rev William Cowper (17781858), third Chaplain to the colony of New South Wales.

Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction.

Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand.

'The most wonderful natural feature I have ever seen.

On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany.

When the great kingdom of Pagan declined politically in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, its territory devolved into three centers of power and a period of transition occurred.