Inventing Anzac: The Digger And National Mythology by Graham Seal ISBN: 0702234478
Published by University of Queensland Pr (Australia) on January 1st 2004
Pages: 232
Len's Summary: Traces the development of the proud central myth of Australian nationhood back to its origins on the battlefields Gallipoli peninsula and the trenches of the Western Front.
The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia, and Empire in the First World War
The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia, and Empire in the First World War by Christopher Pugsley ISBN: 0790009412
on 2004
Pages: 356
Len's Summary: A fine new book on Anzac participation in The Great War.
Gallipoli: Making History
Gallipoli: Making History by Jenny Macleod ISBN: 0415647908
Published by Routledge on June 29th 2012
Pages: 210
Len's Summary: Papers from a symposium held in 2001 at the Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College, London. Contributors include the editor, Martin Gilbert, Niall Barr and Stuart Ward.
The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences of Memories of Loss and the Great War
The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences of Memories of Loss and the Great War by Tanja Luckins ISBN: 1920731741
Published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press on February 1st 2004
Pages: 304
Australian Hawk Over the Western Front – A Biography of Major R. S. Dallas
Australian Hawk Over the Western Front - A Biography of Major R. S. Dallas by Adrian Hellwig ISBN: 1904943349
Published by Grub Street on August 1st 2006
Pages: 221
Len's Summary: The story of Australia's leading air ace.
No Ordinary Determination: Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF
No Ordinary Determination: Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF by Jeff Hatwell ISBN: 9781459673755
on March 1st 2014
Pages: 492
Len's Summary: The story of the campaigns of two Australian volunteers who rose from the ranks to field grade command in the AIF of 1915-18 fighting at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915
Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915 by Peter Chasseaud, Peter Doyle ISBN: 0750962267
Published by The History Press on June 1st 2015
Pages: 364
Len's Summary: The authors contend that the lessons from this campaign have been overdrawn by military historians.
Madness and the Military: Australia’s Experience of the Great War
Madness and the Military: Australia's Experience of the Great War by Michael Tyquin ISBN: 9781876439897
Published by Australian Military History Publications on January 1st 2006
Pages: 180
Len's Summary: The author examines the often uneasy relationship between the Australian military and the medical establishment in treating shell shock.
Gallipoli: The Western Australian Story
Gallipoli: The Western Australian Story by Wesley Olson ISBN: 9781920694821
Published by University of Western Australia Press on November 1st 2006
Genres: Australia & New Zealand, Military
Pages: 396
Len's Summary: A lavishly illustrated history of the Gallipoli Campaign drawing heavily on the memoirs and diaries of participants from Western Australia.
Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration: Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand
Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration: Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand by Shanti Sumartojo, Ben Wellings ISBN: 3034309376
Published by Peter Lang on April 23rd 2014
Pages: 329
Len's Summary: Social history.
Hamilton and Gallipoli: British Command in an Age of Military Transformation
Hamilton and Gallipoli: British Command in an Age of Military Transformation by Evan McGilvray ISBN: 9781781590768
on February 27th 2015
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: A study of Sir Ian Hamilton’s failed command.
The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered
The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered by Peter Liddle ISBN: 9781783400393
on February 4th 2015
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Reevaluation of the political and military leadership of this campaign by a premier British historian.
Gallipoli: Command Under Fire
Gallipoli: Command Under Fire ISBN: 9781472806697 Published by Osprey Publishing on March 1st 2015
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: Another look at the ever-fascinating Gallipoli campaign from a Turkish-language specialist and professor at the US Marine Corps University.
Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography
Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography by Carolyn Holbrook ISBN: 9781742241814
Published by NewSouth on September 1st 2014
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: A history of how Australians remember WWI.
Gallipoli
Gallipoli by LA Carlyon ISBN: 0553815067
Published by Bantam on October 1st 2003
Pages: 752
Len's Summary: Based on the authors detailed personal walking examination of the battlefield.
ANZACS on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide
ANZACS on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide by Peter Pedersen ISBN: 9781742169811
Published by Wiley on December 19th 2011
Pages: 600
Len's Summary: Walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields (every major Anzac engagement) including tactical considerations and excerpts from Digger soldiers’ writings.
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War by Bart Ziino ISBN: 9781920694890
Published by University of Western Australia Press on March 1st 2007
Pages: 243
Len's Summary: The role of war graves and cemeteries in private grief and mourning for Australia’s 60 thousand dead of WWI.
Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War – a Biography of Australias Greatest Military Commander
Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War - a Biography of Australias Greatest Military Commander by Roland Perry ISBN: 1741668476
on 2007
Len's Summary: Reprint of a biographical history first published in 2004 examining the career of Lt. General Sir John Monash, commander of the Anzac Corps. Won a major Australian book prize despite mixed reviews.
A Thousand Miles of Battles
A Thousand Miles of Battles by Ian Jones ISBN: 9780975712382
Published by Australian War Memorial on 2007
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: Published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the charge at Beersheba; an account of the campaigns of the legendary Australian Light Horse from Gallipoli, to the deserts of Egypt, Palestine and Syria, and the Western Front. Order from http://tinyurl.com/5gf936 or http://cas.awm.gov.au.
New Zealand’s Great War: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War
New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War by John Crawford ISBN: 0908988850
Published by Exisle Publishing on August 15th 2015
Pages: 704
Len's Summary: Consists of 32 scholarly papers given at the Zealandia’s Great War conference in Wellington, November 2003. For more on New Zealand in WWI, go to www.bn.com.
Other Anzacs: Nurses at War, 1914-1918
Other Anzacs: Nurses at War, 1914-1918 by Peter Rees ISBN: 1741755492
Published by Allen & Unwin on September 1st 2008
Genres: History, Australia & New Zealand, Military, World War I, Social Science, Women's Studies
Pages: 363
Len's Summary: Based on the diaries and letters of those who served, as well as official papers and records.
Images of War: New Zealand and the Great War
Images of War: New Zealand and the Great War by Glyn Harper ISBN: 9781869506766
Published by HarperCollins on November 1st 2008
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Some 800 photographs from all theaters of war taken from the New Zealand Army Memorial Museum and private archives. Includes photos of facial wounds and results of reconstructive surgery from Gilles Archive.
1917: Tactics, Training and Technology
1917: Tactics, Training and Technology by Jeffrey Grey, Peter Dennis ISBN: 978 0 9803 7967 9
Published by Loftus Australia on February 2008
Len's Summary: Collection of 11 essays based on papers presented at the 2007 Australian Chief of Army’s Military History Conference in 2007. Contributors include Robin Prior, Gary Sheffield, Dan Todman, Tim Cook and Andrew Wiest, Robert Doughty and Michael Neiberg. // An anthology focusing mainly but not exclusively on the BEF. Favorably reviewed by Bruce Gudmundsson in The Journal of Military History.
The Devil’s Own War: The Diary of Herbert Hart – Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele as they happened
The Devil's Own War: The Diary of Herbert Hart - Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele as they happened by John Crawford ISBN: 0908988222
Published by Exisle Publishing on March 15th 2010
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, Australia & New Zealand
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Wairarapa lawyer Hart jointed the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as a Major in 1914 rising to brigade command after serving as a battalion CO at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. After the war he was knighted and served as Administrator of Western Samoa.
Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death
Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death by Peter Stanley ISBN: 9781921215339
Published by Scribe on August 31st 2009
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Australia & New Zealand
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: The focus is on the dozen men who fought in Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion on September 1, 1918, tracing their battle and the survivors’ lives after the war.
Mont St. Quentin: A Soldier’s Battle
Mont St. Quentin: A Soldier’s Battle by Bill Billet ISBN: 1459640624
Published by ReadHowYouWant on December 28th 2012
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: A fine analysis of the successful and innovative August-September 1918 ANZAC Corps attack against strong German positions along the Somme at Peronne and St. Quentin.
Light Horse: A History of Australia’s Mounted Arm
Light Horse: A History of Australia's Mounted Arm by Jean Bou ISBN: 9780521197083
Published by Cambridge University Press on November 24th 2009
Genres: History, Australia & New Zealand, Military, General, Other
Pages: 361
Len's Summary: The evolution of the famed light horse mounted infantry regiments from pre-federation days to WWI to their withering away in 1944.
An Eyewitness Account of Gallipoli: Ellis Silas
An Eyewitness Account of Gallipoli: Ellis Silas by Ellis Silas, John Laffin ISBN: 9781877058912
Published by Rosenberg Publishing on February 1st 2010
Genres: Art, General, History, Military, World War I, Australia & New Zealand, Illustrated
Pages: 90
Len's Summary: First published in 1916, this is the work of an Australian signaler illustrating his experiences in Egypt, at Gallipoli and en route home after being wounded.
Crumps and Camouflets – Australian Mining Companies on the Western Front
Crumps and Camouflets: Australian Mining Companies on the Western Front by Damien Finlayson ISBN: 9780980658255
Published by Big Sky Publishing on June 21st 2010
Pages: 480
Len's Summary: The story of the 4,500 men of the three Australian mining companies in the BEF.
The ANZAC Book
The ANZAC Book by Australian War Memorial, Les Carlyon ISBN: 1742231349
Published by University of New South Wales Press on December 1st 2010
Genres: History, Australia & New Zealand, Military, World War I, Literary Collections, Australian & Oceanian
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: 1742231349
Gallipoli
Gallipoli by Peter Hart ISBN: 9780199361274
Published by Oxford University Press on March 5th 2014
Genres: History, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, General, Military, World War I
Pages: 534
Len's Summary: British oral historian Hart reexamines the failed Gallipoli campaign drawing on letters and memoirs of soldiers on both sides. Lively and very readable.
The Forgotten General: New Zealand’s World War 1 Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell
The Forgotten General: New Zealand's World War 1 Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell by Jock Vennell ISBN: 9781877505447
Published by Allen & Unwin on April 1st 2014
Pages: 338
Len's Summary: New Zealand in The Great War.
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force by Peter Stanley ISBN: 9781741964806
Published by Pier 9 on August 1st 2010
Pages: 287
Len's Summary: Dirty Rotten Diggers: A survey of indiscipline in the always boisterous Australian Imperial Force. // A survey of indiscipline in the Australian forces of WWI; good soldiers acting badly. . .
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Second Edition)
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Second Edition) by Alistair Thomson ISBN: 9781921867583
Published by Monash University Publishing on November 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Australia & New Zealand, Biography & Autobiography, Other
Pages: 424
Len's Summary: Making sense of Australia’s national past.
Voyage to Gallipoli
Voyage to Gallipoli by Peter Plowman ISBN: 9781922013538
on December 1st 2013
Genres: History, Australia & New Zealand, Military, World War I
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Follows the first two contingents of ANZAC troops from Australia to Egypt, Lemnos and Gallipoli.
A German Tommy: The Secret of a War Hero
A German Tommy: The Secret of a War Hero by Ken Anderson ISBN: 9781783462742
Published by Pen & Sword Books on 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Australia & New Zealand, Great Britain
Pages: 198
Len's Summary: Offers insight into how soldiers of German origin were treated in His Majesty’s Forces.
President’s Quarterly Update—April 2024
Dear Members and Friends,
I’m extremely pleased with the level of WW1HA’s activities, some of which may be unseen by you.
Our Journal, “World War One Illustrated,” is now published three times a year with an average length of 48 pages. Each issue is filled with high-quality articles covering a variety of topics, including the popular “My Kin in the Great War” series.
Our electronic newsletter, “Here and There with the WW1HA” is published monthly, with an assortment of Association events and articles covering WW1 topics.
Sal Compagno’s San Francisco Bay Area Chapter continues to hold monthly meetings via Zoom, while Mark Benbow’s Eastern Chapter is holding quarterly meetings.
As President, I am also hosting a quarterly “Fireside Chat” online. The last one emphasized WW1 poetry. The next one will emphasize WW1-era music.
If you’re already a member, I thank you for your membership and encourage you to take part in these activities. If you’re not a member, I ask you to join and participate in these activities. Participate in the events and consider submitting an article for the journal or newsletter.
Reach out to me with your comments: lavarennes@meuse-argonne.com.
Regards,
Randy Gaulke
