Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
… a Veteran Affairs psychiatrist, Achilles in Vietnam is Dr Jonathan … unable to function in society. Achilles in Vietnam draws … – the timelessness of this fact makes Shay’s work persistently …
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Jonathan Shay
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
… the plans to invade Iraq and the actions, both on the ground and in …
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Thomas Ricks
Rogue Forces: an explosive insiders’ account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan
… in Afghanistan. Preceded by Willacy’s award-winning Four Corners … liberty and poor leadership that facilitated the horrific actions of a few. This book is an …
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Mark Willacy
Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War
This is an outstanding analysis of infantry battalion command in the Australian Army that strips away popular stereotypes and considers the reality.
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Garth Pratten
Not Mentioned in Despatches: The History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green
… of ‘restrictive control’ as practiced by Lieutenant Colonel ‘H’ …
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Spencer Fitz-Gibbon
Command in War
… two millennia, Command in War traces the evolution of command and …
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Martin Van Creveld
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
… orders are obeyed to achieve objectives. But as … beyond its centrality to military action and leadership the concept … Command investigates the practice and politics of command as …
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Lawrence Freedman
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
… a well-researched history of the actions of President Johnson, the … War. Dense with recollections of actual correspondence and … gives an exhaustive—and damning—account of the slide into …
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HR McMaster
Crisis of Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat 1941–1943
… A classic account that subjects the interwar … that led to several celebrated sackings of senior officers and …
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David Horner
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
… provide a rich and varied account of virtually all the major … … Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of …
