In Anzac’s Dirty Dozen, a team of renowned historians seek to uncover the truths lying behind twelve stubbornly pervasive and socially venerated myths of Australian military history.

This history of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) traces the evolution toward the formation of a joint force from the Tange reorganisation in 1973.

A classic work that pioneered a resurgence in Australian intellectual interest in soldier’s experiences in the Great War.

When published in 1895, Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage was an international bestseller, went into numerous reprints, and has remained widely available ever since.

Heller joined the US Army Air Force in 1942 and flew sixty combat missions. In 1961 he published this masterpiece of satirical fiction about the murderous insanity of war.

Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time—he keeps re-living his experiences in the Second World War, as well as jumping ahead in time to where he is kept by aliens in a zoo.

Deighton weaves a masterly tale of a Lancaster crew’s final raid over Germany during the Second World War.

Along with 1984, Brave New World is the masthead of dystopian fiction, worlds created to explore what makes a good social order and how best to achieve it.

Drawing on the activities of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company on the Western Front, this recent Australian film won generally positive accolades for its depictions of the war underground and the stresses and dangers of the tunnellers’ war.

This documentary on Robert S. McNamara has been praised for its candor and introspection. Looking back on his time as Secretary of Defense in the lead up to and during the Vietnam and Cold Wars, McNamara confronts his decisions openly and honestly.