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This book is the first study of Australia's military police. It traces its history from its roots as the Provost Marshal in the colony of New South Wales, where it was 'similarly feared by soldier, settler, and convict alike,' through the formation of the Anzac Provost Corps in 1916 and up to the end of World War II. ... Read more

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A Personal Recollection of the early Darwin Bombings
I got this slim book from the Brisbane library and enjoyed it - but I enjoy personal diaries of war topics.This was written 50+ years after the fact, so it's mostly narrative and incidental and there is, reasonably enough, no effort to tie events into the bigger WWII picture.I'd mark it is a good secondary source. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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A biography of Lieutenant General Sir James Whiteside McCay, a lawyer, politician and General in the First AIF. In the course of a successful political career he had been a member of Australia's first federal parliament, and while Minister for Defence he had introduced far-ranging reforms of the Australian Army's command structure. ... Read more

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This book represents a new, expanded and substantially updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. As well as providing a detailed chronological narrative of the wars in which Australia has been involved, it discusses the evolution of defense policy in peace and war, and the impact of war and military service on civilian society. In addition, the book considers how national security and defense policy is being shaped at the end of the twentieth century in a rapidly changing world. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the Australian War Memorial, published by Australian War Memorial on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1181 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dayton McCarthy, The once and future army: a history of the Citizen Military Forces, 1947-74.(Book Review)
Author: Craig Wilcox
Publication: Journal of the Australian War Memorial (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: Australian War Memorial
Issue: 39Page: NA

Article Type: Book Review

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