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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/Australian_Army_Journal.asp

  • North Korea on the Brink, Glyn Ford with Soyoung Kwon, Pluto Press, ISBN 9780745325989, 249 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Reporting the War: Freedom of the Press from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism, John Byrne Cooke, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9781403975157, 272 pp.
  • The US Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management June 1987–December 1989, Lawrence A Yates, Center of Military History, United States Army, ISBN 9780160794193, 313 pp.
  • Honor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953, Gilberto N. Villahermosa Brent, Scribe Publications, ISBN 9780160833243, 329 pp.
  • East Asian Multilateralism, Kent E Calder and Francis Fukuyama (eds), Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801888496, 281 pp.
  • ‘More than an Ally?’: Contemporary Australia-US Relations, Maryanne Kelton, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754673675, 226 pp.
  • Political Islam in Southeast Asia, Gordon P Means, Lynne Rienner Publishers, ISBN 9781848542594, 306 pp.
  • Political Economy in a Globalized World, Jorgen Orstrom Moller, World Scientific, ISBN 9789812839107, 442 pp.
  • Terrorism, War and International Law: The Legality of the Use of Force Against Afghanistan in 2001, Myra Williamson, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754674030, 277 pp.
  • Toward the National Security State: Civil-Military Relations during World War II, Brian Waddell, Praeger Security International, ISBN 9780275984083, 200 pp.
  • The Army Medical Department 1917-1941, Mary C Gillett, United States Army Center of Military History, ISBN 9780160839702, 644 pp.
  • Religion, Conflict and Military Intervention, Rosemary Durward and Lee Marsden (eds), Ashgate, ISBN 9780754678717, 186 pp.
  • Guests of the Emperor: The Secret History of Japan’s Mukden POW Camp, Linda Goetz Holmes, Naval Institute Press, ISBN 9781591143772, 147 pp.
  • From Pacification to Peacebuilding: A Call to Global Tranformation, Diana Francis, Pluto Press, ISBN 9780745330266, 193 pp.
  • World in Crisis: The End of the American Century, Gabriel Kolko, Pluto Press, ISBN 9780745328652, 182 pp.
  • Bricks, Sand and Marble: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction in the Mediterranean and Middle East, Robert P Grathwol and Donita M Moorhus, US Army Center of Military History, 672 pp.

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).