Authored by a Veteran Affairs psychiatrist, Achilles in Vietnam is Dr Jonathan Shay’s compassionate and moving effort to foster understanding and empathy for the effects of war on those who fight it.

Fiasco is an exploration of the decision-making behind the plans to invade Iraq and the actions, both on the ground and in Washington, once the invasion had begun.

Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction, Rogue Forces is a compelling and confronting piece of investigative journalism into SAS war crimes in Afghanistan.

This is an outstanding analysis of infantry battalion command in the Australian Army that strips away popular stereotypes and considers the reality.

Written with the cooperation of the Ministry of Defence and based on extensive interviews with those involved supported by the operational records from the campaign, this book provides a hard-hitting critiqu

A study of command over two millennia, Command in War traces the evolution of command and control alongside the development of warfare from the ancient world to the late 20th Century.

In war, command is about forging and implementing effective strategies and ensuring appropriate, timely, well-communicated orders are obeyed to achieve objectives.

The author, who at time of writing the book was a serving member of the US military and has recently been cleared for promotion to two-star rank, has compiled a well-researched history of the actions of President Johnson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the lead-up to the Vietnam War.

A classic account that subjects the interwar and wartime rivalries within the Australian Army to cold-eyed analysis.

Commander of the artillery in Longstreet’s Corps at Gettysburg at the advanced age of twenty-eight, Alexander was an engineer, artillerist and staff officer whose lengthy recollections provide a rich and varied account of virtually all the major engagements in the Eastern theatre of the Civil War, in nearly all of which he was personally involved.