Titles to Note

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

• 34 Days: Israel, Hezbollah and the War in Lebanon, Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780230604001, 287 pp.
   
• A Good War, Patrick Bishop, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978034095171, 392 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Hachette Livre)
   
• Americans and the Wars of the Twentieth Century, Jenel Virden, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780333726617, 203 pp.
   
• Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander, Todd S Brown, Department of the Army (US), ISBN 9780160787065, 292 pp.
   
• Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, Michael Burleigh, HarperPress, ISBN 9780007241279, 545 pp.
   
• Bradley: A Biography (Great Generals Series), Alan Axelrod, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780230600188, 204 pp.
   
• Carry Me Home: The Life and Death of Private Jake Kovco, Dan Box, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 9781741752748, 290 pp.
   
• Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, P W Singer, Cornell Paperbacks, ISBN 9780801474361, 348 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq, Jonathan Steele, I B Tauris, ISBN 9781845116293, 294 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• Desperate Stand: The Battle of Buena Vista, Stephen A Carney, US Army Center of Military History, ISBN 978016079423, 40 pp.
   
• Dusty Warriors, Richard Holmes, HarperCollins, ISBN 9780007212859, 385 pp.
   
• East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability, Kent E Calder and Francis Fukuyama (eds.), The John Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801088496, 281 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Empty Casing: A Soldier’s Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege, Fred Doucette, Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 9781553652915, 228 pp.
   
• Military Transformation Past and Present: Historic Lessons for the 21st Century, Mark D Mandeles, Praeger Security International, ISBN 9780275991906, 157 pp. (Distributed in Australia by DA Information Services)
   
• More than an Ally? Contemporary Australia-US Relations, Maryanne Kelton, Ashgate, ISBN 9780754673675, 226 pp.
   
• Mr Double Seven: A Biography of Wing Commander Dick Cresswell, DFC, George Odgers, Air Power Development Centre, ISBN 9781920800307, 170 pp.
   
• Myth and the Greatest Generation: A Social History of Americans in World War II, Kenneth D Rose, Routledge, ISBN 0415956773, 361 pp.
   
• North Korea on the Brink, Glyn Ford with Soyoung Kwon, Pluto Press, ISBN 9780745325989, 249 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• Operation Broken Reed: Truman’s Secret North Korean Spy Mission that Averted World War III, Arthur L Boyd, Carroll & Graf, ISBN 9780786720866, 280 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• Peace Operations: Trends, Progress, and Prospects, Donald C F Daniel, Patricia Taft and Sharon Wiharta (eds.), Georgetown University Press, ISBN 9781589012097, 271 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The Story of UNAMSIL, ‘Funmi Olonisakin, Rienner, ISBN 9781588265210, 203 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• Pompey Elliott, Ross McMullin, Scribe, ISBN 9781921372018, 718 pp.
   
• Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism, Michael C Desch, The John Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801088014, 232 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific, Gavan Daws, Scribe, ISBN 9781921215919, 462 pp.
   
• 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.
   
• Responding to Terrorism: Political, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives, Robert Imre, T Brian Mooney and Benjamin Clarke, Ashgate, ISBN 9780754672777, 239 pp.
   
• Rethinking Japanese Security: Internal and External Dimensions, Peter J Katzenstein, Routledge, ISBN 9780415773959, 290 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, ISBN 9780465003556, 249 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• Stonewall Jackson: A Biography (Great Generals Series), Donald A Davis, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9781403974778, 204 pp.
   
• Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945, Thomas G Mahnken, Columbia, ISBN 9780231123365, 244 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books)
   
• Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, Mark Zuehlke, Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 9781553654049, 545 pp.
   
• The Costs of War: International Law, The UN, and World Order After Iraq, Richard A Falk, Routledge, ISBN 0415955092, 203 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to Al-Qaeda, Jerrold M Post, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9781403966117, 311 pp.
   
• The Secret War: A True History of Queensland’s Native Police, Jonathan Richards, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 9780702236396, 308 pp.
   
• The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, Ralph D Sawyer (ed.), Basic Books, ISBN 9780465003044, 568 pp. (Distributed in Australia by Palgrave Macmillan)
   
• Three Passions and a Lucky Penny: An Autobiography, Eric Stephenson, Air Power Development Centre, ISBN 9781920800291, 160 pp.
   
• Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire 1714-1783, Brendan Simms, Penguin, ISBN 9780713994261, 802 pp.
   
• To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918, Edward G Lengel, Henry Holt, ISBN 9780805079319, 491 pp.
   
• Toward the National Security State: Civil-Military Relations During World War II, Brian Waddell, Praeger Security International, ISBN 9780275984083, 200 pp. (Distributed in Australia by DA Information Services)

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).