Titles to Note

Listed below is a selection from the review copies that have arrived at the Australian Army Journal. Some of these books will feature as book reviews in future editions.

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• A Thousand Miles of Battles: The Saga of the Australian Light Horse, Ian Jones, ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee, ISBN 9870975712382, 224pp.
   
• After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination, Kirkpatrick Sale, Duke University Press, ISBN 9780739117019, 202 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)
   
• America and China: Asia-Pacific Rim Hegemony in the Twenty-First Century, Randall Doyle, Lexington Books, ISBN 978187692449, 320pp. (Distributed in Australia by DA Information Services)
   
• Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats, Daryl G Press, Cornell University Press, ISBN 9780801474156, 218 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions, Neil J Smelser, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691133089, 285 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Forecasting Crisis: Climate Change and US Security, Michael Mayer, Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies, ISSN 1504-6753, 85 pp.
   
• Foreign Policy in God’s Name: Evangelical influence on US Policy towards Sudan, Ivar A Iversen, Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies, ISBN 9788291571027, 78 pp.
   
• Killing Civilians: Methods, Madness and Morality in War, Hugo Slim, Hurst & Company, ISBN 9781850658818, 319 pp. (Distributed in Australia by UNSW Press)
   
• Law, War and Crime, Gerry Simpson, Polity Press, ISBN 97807456302369, 224 pp. (Distributed in Australia by J W Wiley)
   
• The New Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, Cullen Murphy, Scribe, ISBN 9781921215803, 262 pp.
   
• Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia & the Middle East, Etel Solingen, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691134680, 406 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Operation Joint Guardian: The U.S. Army in Kosovo, R Cody Phillips, U.S. Army Center of Military History, ISBN 9780160790447, 60 pp.
   
• Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, Amitav Acharya and Evelyn Goh, eds, The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262511896, 290 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, Richard J Samuels, Cornell University Press, ISBN 97808014461225, 277 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Sexing the Soldier: the politics of gender and the contemporary British army, Rachel Woodward and Trish Winter, Routledge, ISBN 9780415392556, 144pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• The Truth About Patriotism, Steven Johnston, Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822341109, 296 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)
   
• Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat, David Cortright and George A Lopez, eds., The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262532952, 334 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy, Walid Phares, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9781403976390, 266 pp. (Distributed in Australia by DA Information Services)
   
• The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, Wolfram Wette, Harvard University Press, ISBN 9780674025776, 400 pp. (Distributed in Australia by In Books)
   
• What Goes Up: behind the 2007 election, Nicholas Stuart, Scribe, ISBN 9781921215865, 322 pp.
   
• What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, Alan B Krueger, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691134383, 180 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War, Ashley Gilbertson, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226293257, 264 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat, Robin Higham and Stephen J Harris, eds., University of Kentucky, ISBN 9780813123745, 424 pp.