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Reference

Dennis, Peter

Sedgley, Graham

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Thomson Learning Australia

'War has been one of the defining forces in Australian history ... Participation in war, whether actively in the armed forces or on the home front, or in opposition to a particular war, has shaped the lives of successive generations of Australians in the twentieth century. Today ... questions relating to defence do not usually seize the attention of the media, but the Department of Defence remains one of the largest single consumers of the annual federal budget, and Anzac Day continues to hold a special place in the Australian calendar.' These words introduced the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History in 1995. More than a decade later much has changed. Australian forces are currently employed in widely dispersed operations around the world, in particular in Iraq, Afghanistan, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands, and questions of defence, broadly understood, have once again become a matter of public debate and controversy. This substantial new edition of the Companion builds on the strength of the first edition. Many of the original entries have been retained, some with minor emendations or additions, while others have been rewritten in the light of recent scholarship. There are also many new entries on topics that were omitted from the first edition, either because they did not seem to warrant inclusion or simply because they were overlooked, while others have assumed a new significance in the light of developments since 1995. In all cases the editors have sought to retain the original aim of combining information, some of it technical, with analysis, and to do so in a manner that will make the Companion accessible and useful both to the general reader and to the specialist.

Oxford Companion to Australian Military History

History

Grey, Jeffrey

Australia & Oceania

Oxford University Press

This is a comprehensive guide to Australian military history, broadly conceived within a critical and analytical framework. Its 800 entries. extend beyond standard categories such as battles, campaigns, biographies, and weapons, and encompass the structures of various parts of the defense force organization and their evolution, military language and customs, literature dealing with military themes and treaties, alliances and acts of parliament that have had a significant impact on the military. Complete with 100 photographs and 32 maps, the result is a comprehensive work of reference, analysis and interest that will come to be regarded as the authoritative work in the field.

The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History

Prior, Robin

Morris, Ewan

Troubled Days of Peace: Mountbatten and South-East Asia Command, 1945-46 (War, Armed Forces and Society)

Asia

St. Martin's Pr

The Little Red Metro for Sale (The Little Red Metro)

Rowlands, Avril

Pan/Macmillan

Part of the "Adventure Game Book" series, in which the reader is the hero of an adventure. The action is set in the Scottish Highlands, where, many years ago, a train disappeared carrying a shipment of gold. The locals say that the gold is protected by ghosts. The reader is dared to recover it. The book is presented in a transparent pack complete with spirit dice, map, two key cards, a codebook card and a "ghost counter". The author has also written the "Famous Five Adventure Game Books", "Asterix to the Rescue", "Tactics" and "Ghostly Towers".

Ghost Train (Adventure Game Book Series)

Literature & Fiction

Thraves, Stephen

Genre Fiction

Hodder & Stoughton Childrens Division

Decision by Default (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)

Routledge

Britain's vast losses of men in the first world war produced a revulsion against conscription. Originally published in 1972, Peter Dennis here describes how conscription was introduced once more in 1939, when pressure from within Britain and from France forced the British Government to reverse its position.With the use of original sources, Peter Dennis explores the development of British military policy between the wars, from the period of readjustment and realignment immediately after the first world war, up to the breakdown of the Chamberlain government's pledge not to introduce conscription in peacetime. He points out that the politicians and the public were not afraid of conscription itself, but of conscription in peacetime as the forerunner of continental military adventures in alliance with France. He shows how the battles over conscription had a marked effect on the indecision of military thinking, and how, in 1939, conscription finally became the crucial issue in Britain's preparation for war.

Decision by Default: Peacetime Conscription and British Defence 1919–39 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)

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The Golden 120 Seconds of Every Sales Call: A Fresh Innovative Look at the Sales Process

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Bowker

At the end of the war against Japan in South East Asia, as Supreme Allied Commander, Mountbatten faced problems as difficult as any during the war: evacuating over three-quarters of a million enemy troops, rescuing prisoners of war and internees, and restoring law and order. The first two were difficult enough, given the vast size of the country and the inadequate forces available; the third brought him into conflict with the emerging nationalist movements and with the returning colonial powers. Lacking clear guidance from London, Mountbatten and his commanders on the spot largely shaped their own policy, and if the final outcome was not all that Mountbatten later implied, neither was it the disastrous result of ill-conceived military interference that some critics have claimed. This book describes Mountbatten's problems, the strategies used to overcome them and the achievements that finally wound up the war in South East Asia.

Troubled Days of Peace: Mountbatten and South Eas Asia Command, 1945-46 (War, Armed Forces and Society)

Manchester Univ Pr

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