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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

  • Barefoot Soldier, Johnson Beharry, VC, Sphere, ISBN 9780751538793, 434pp.  
     
  • A Devil’s Triangle: Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destructions and Rogue States, Peter Brookes, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0742549534, 272pp.  
     
  • A Distant Grief, Bart Ziino, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 1920694897, 243pp.  
     
  • Against Empire, Zillah Eisenstein, Spinifex Press, ISBN 84277395X, 236pp.  
     
  • An Incomplete History of World War I, Edwin Kiester Jr., Murdoch Books, ISBN 9781740459709, 208pp.  
     
  • An Introduction to the Causes of War, Greg Cashman & Leonard Robinson, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 0742555100, 400pp.  
     
  • Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness, Risa A. Brooks & Elizabeth A. Stanley (eds), Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804753997, 264pp.  
     
  • Exit A: A Novel, Anthony Swofford, Scribner, ISBN 978-0743270380, 304pp.  
     
  • Expendable Warriors: The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War, Bruce B. G. Clarke, Praeger Security International, ISBN, 0275994805, 192pp.  
     
  • Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace and Strategy, Colin S. Gray, Praeger Security International, ISBN 0275991318, 208pp.  
     
  • Gallipoli: The Western Australian Story, Wes Olsen, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 192069482X, 396pp.  
     
  • Global Security Governance, Emil J. Kirchner & James Sperling (eds), Routledge, ISBN 0415391628, 290pp.  
     
  • He was my Father, Harry Hill, Roseberg Publishing, ISBN 1877058556, 144pp.  
     
  • Mutiny, Terrorism, Riots and Murder, Kevin Baker, Rosenberg Publishing, ISBN 1877058491, 192pp.  
     
  • Oil Wars, Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said (eds), Pluto Press, ISBN 0745324789, 294pp.
      
  • Prisoners of the Japanese, Roger Bourke, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 0702235644, 208pp.  
     
  • September 11, 2001 Feminist Perspectives, Susan Hawthorne & Bronwyn Winter (eds), Spinifex Press, ISBN 1876756276, 500pp.  
     
  • Taking on Tehran: Stratetgies for Confronting the Islamic Republic, Ilan Berman (ed.), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 074255807X, 118pp.  
     
  • The Anglosphere Challenge, James C. Bennett, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 0742533336, 352pp.  
     
  • The Punishment of Virtue, Sarah Chayes, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 0702235881, 416pp. 
     
  • Well Done Those Men, Barry Heard, Scribe Publications, ISBN 1921215364, 336pp.  
     
  • Tehran Rising, Ilan Berman (ed.), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN 0742549054, 224pp.  
     
  • The Cold War and After: Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics, Richard Saull, Pluto Press, ISBN 0745320945, 262pp.  

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).