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Titles to Note

Journal Edition

Listed below is a selection from the review copies that have arrived at the Australian Army Journal. Reviews for many of these books can be found online in the relevant edition of the Australian Army Journal at: http://www.defence.gov.au/army/lwsc/Publications/journal/journal.htm

  • Battle of Crete (Australian Army Campaign Series), Albert Palazzo, Army History Unit, ISBN 9780980320411,178 pp. (Copies are available to serving Army personnel—please apply directly to the Army History Unit)
     
  • China’s Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia, William W Keller & Thomas G Rawski eds., University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN 9780800959670, 328 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)
     
  • East Timor: Beyond Independence, Damien Kingsbury & Michael Leach eds., Monash Asia Institute, ISBN 978187692449, 320 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)
     
  • Emergent Conflict and Peaceful Change, Hugh Miall, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780333987674, 224 pp.
     
  • The Ends and Means of a Militarised European Union, Per M Norheim-Marinsen, Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies, ISBN 9788291571065, 52 pp.
     
  • Extraordinary Justice: Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context, Peter Judson Richards, New York University Press, ISBN 9780814775912, 272 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
     
  • Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War, Peter Barham, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300125115, 464 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)  
     
  • Hope is not a plan: The war in Iraq from inside the green zone, Thomas Mowle ed., Praeger Security International, ISBN 9780275994457, 272 pp. (Distributed in Australia by DA Information Services)
     
  • Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, Marilyn B Young and Lloyd C Gardner eds., New Press, ISBN 9781595581495, 336 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
     
  • Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict, Markus E Bouillon, David M Malone and Ben Roswell eds., International Peace Academy, ISBN 9781588265289, 350 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
     
  • Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, Anthony Arnove, The New Press, ISBN 9781595580795, 192 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
     
  • Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War: was defeat inevitable? James B Wood, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 97807425533892, 207 pp. (Distributed in Australia by DA Information Services)
     
  • The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, Ali A Allawi, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300110159, 432 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)
     
  • Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective, David Little & Donald K Swearer, Harvard University Press, ISBN 9780945454410, 256 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)
     
  • Resisting Rebellion: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency, Anthony James Joes, University of Kentucky, ISBN 9780813191706, 351 pp.
     
  • Service to Country: Personnel Policy and the Transformation of Western Militaries, Curtis Gilroy and Cindy Williams eds., MIT Press, ISBN 9780262072762, 513 pp.
     
  • A Tale of Two Quagmires: Iraq, Vietnam and the Hard Lessons of War Kenneth J Campbell, Paradigm Publishers, ISBN 9781594513527,160 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
     
  • Tehran Rising, Ilan Berman ed., Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 9780742549043, 218 pp. (Distributed in Australia by DA Information Services)
     
  • The Morality of War: A Reader, David Kinsella and Craig L Carr eds., Lynne Rienner Publishing, ISBN 9781588263537, 415 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
     
  • Undiplomatic activities, Richard Woolcott, Scribe Publications, ISBN 9781921215384, 202 pp.
     
  • Uneasy warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army, Sabine Fruhsutck, University of California Press, ISBN 978052024956, 597 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)

Are you interested in writing a book review for the Australian Army Journal? Please contact the AAJ at army.journal@defence.gov.au, stating your areas of interest, and we can provide you of a list of the books available (you will be provided with a free copy that is yours to keep).