LibGuides: Remembrance Day: Books

eBooks

Vietnam Vanguard: The 5th Battalion's Approach to Counter-Insurgency, 1966 by Ron Boxall, Robert O'Neill
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1760463337
Publication Date: 2020
This book attempts to make the true nature of the Vietnam War clearer to readers, emphasising how hard fought it was during major operations. Twenty-seven of the contributing authors of this book were involved in the 1966 deployment of the 1st Australian Task Force into Phuoc Tuy Province, and both professional soldiers and conscripted national servicemen have contributed viewpoints to these pages.
The Last Post by Emma Campbell
ISBN: 9781742235783
Publication Date: 2018-10-15
The Last Post profiles some of the 102,800 soldiers whose names are listed on the Memorial's Roll of Honour; it explores how and why we commemorate, and the role of the Australian War Memorial in national remembrance.
Australia's Vietnam: Myth vs History by Mark Dapin
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1742244521
Publication Date: 2019
In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myth. Australia's Vietnam is a major contribution to the understanding of Australia's experience of the war and will change the way we think about memory and military history.
In Defence of Country: Life Stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Servicemen & women by Noah Riseman
ISBN: 1925022803
Publication Date: 2016
Presents a selection of life stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ex-servicemen and women who served in the Australian Army, Navy and Air Force after World War Two.
Remembrance Today by Ted Harrison
ISBN: 9781780230443
Publication Date: 2012-11-15
Harrison explores what it means to be heroic and what glory means in the context of military service. Most important, he asks what the purpose of Remembrance is outside honoring the fallen and comforting...
Radio girl : the story of the extraordinary Mrs. Mac, pioneering engineer and wartime legend by David F. Dufty
ISBN: 1760874167
Publication Date: 2020
A heart-warming and captivating biography of Violet 'Mrs. Mac' McKenzie and her vital role in WW2
RAAF Black Cats by Robert Cleworth; John Suter Linton
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1760633062
Publication Date: 2020-06-01
An extraordinary story of a covert Australian airborne mine-laying operation in cooperation with the US Seventh Fleet to disrupt the Japanese supply routes, and the vital role they played in MacArthur's strategic plan for the south-west Pacific.
Woodbine Willie: an unsung hero of World War One by Bob Holman
ISBN: 0745957137
Publication Date: 2013
Woodbine Willie was the affectionate nickname of the Reverend Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, an Anglican priest who volunteered as a chaplain on the Western Front during the First World War.

Physical Books

Well Done, Those Men

Sydney Campus (Main Collection; 355.3450994 EKI)

Hell of a time : an Australian soldier's diary of the Great War

Lake Mac Call Number: 940.48194 A9

Lake Mac Call Number: 940.426 B63

Fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons. The war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. "In the Shadow of Gallipoli" corrects this historical amnesia by looking at what was happening on the Australian home front during WWI.