Using extensive research and Japanese sources, Peter Williams seeks to explain what really happened during the Kokoda Campaign of 1942.

Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and the Late-Victorian Imperial Defence presents an in-depth, international study of imperial land defence prior to 1914. The book makes sense of the failures, false starts and successes that eventually led to more than 850 000 men being despatched from the Dominions to buttress Britain's Great War effort - an enormous achievement for intra-empire military cooperation. Craig Stockings presents a vivid portrayal of this complex process as it unfolded throughout the late-Victorian Empire through a biographical study of Lieutenant-General...

Destroy and Build challenges the historiography of the Western forces' fight against insurgency in Vietnam.

Guarding the Periphery recounts a part of Australian military history that is often overlooked by studies of Australia's military past.

Captive Anzacs explores the experiences of the 198 Australians who became prisoners of the Ottomans during the First World War.

This book charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War and examines how the role of the Australian Army Medical Corps was transformed by these experiences. It focuses on the provision of medical care through casualty clearance and evacuation, rehabilitation and the prevention and treatment of venereal disease.

Surviving the Great War is the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in WW1. By placing the hardships of prisoners of war in a broader social and military content, this book adds a new dimension to the national wartime experience and challenges popular representations of Australia's involvement in the First World War.