An Atlas of Australia's Wars
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Australia & New Zealand
- Date of Publication 11 January 2007
- ISBN 9780195559149
- Binding Map
- No. of pages438 pages
- Size 432x311x35 mm
- Weight 3925 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous colour maps and halftones 0
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Short description:
Defence of the nation is one of the fundamental obligations of government. For much of the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia that obligation has been tested- in two world wars, and in a series of other military engagements. The military reputation that has grown out of these defining moments in Australian history has been a significant actor in moulding Australian's view of themselves, yet service matters have often not attracted any great degree of public interest., An
Atlas of Australia's Wars explains the complexities of this essential strand of the Commonwealth's first century- the successes and the failures, the progress and the setbacks, in peace and war.
Long description:
Ever since men and women learned to read and write, maps and charts have been important in many fields of endeavour. Nowhere have they been more important than in armed conflict, where campaigns have risen or fallen, succeeded or failed, for the want of reliable maps or charts. For historians and for general readers operating in a less threatening environment, the lack of useful maps does not carry the same possibility of disaster, but it does make the process of understanding
complex manoeuvres in any of the three media- land, sea or air- very difficult to follow. The purpose of this atlas is to give readers a tangible link between the operations and campaigns described in the text and their expression in graphic form by the maps, which accompany the text and are juxtaposed on
the right-hand side of the atlas. Thus the text on every left-hand page is matched with its illuminating set of maps on the right. The atlas covers frontier conflict and colonial wars during the nineteenth century and the ten wars in which Australian's have been involved in the centenary 1901-2001. It also covers peace-keeping operations. The atlas relates a magnificent story of the competence, courage, and self-sacrifice by Australia's armed services.
Table of Contents:
Series introduction
Maps
Acknowledgments
Tables
Conversion table
Military symbols used on the maps
Introduction
Part 1
The colonial era
Chronology
1 Frontier conflict
2 Early defence and expeditionary forces
3 Boer War
Part 2
World War I
Chronology
4 The beginning
5 Gallipoli
6 The Western Front
7 The Palestine Campaign
8 Minor campaigns of World War 1
Part 3
Australian Forces in Europe and the Mediterranean in World War II
Chronology
9 Australia and World War II
10 War in the Mediterranean
11 The first Libyan offensive
12 The Greek campaign
13 Crete
14 Syria
15 The RAN in the Indian Ocean
16 Gazala and El Alamein
17 The RAAF in North Africa and Europe
18 Corvettes in the Mediterranean
Part 4
Australian Forces in the Pacific in World War II
Chronology
19 The Japanese thrust: Japanese forces
20 The Malayan campaign
21 Breaking the Malay barrier
22 The New Guinea campaign
23 The anti-submarine and anti-raider war
24 Operations JAYWICK and RIMAU
25 Advance to the Philippines
26 The Allied air offensive in the north
27 Mopping up in New Guinea and the islands
28 The Borneo campaign
29 Final operations against Japan
Part 5
The post-World War II period
Chronology
30 The Korean War: Background
31 The Malayan Emergency and Confrontation
32 The Vietnam War
Part 6
Since the Cold War
33 Peace-keeping operations
Appendix I: Prisoners of war
Appendix II: Victoria Cross winners
Index
