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Leading historian Peter Stanley traces the history of Australia's military history in 1000 books that reveal the many facets of our continuing fascination with our military past.

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Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. In Charles Bean, Australia's top military historians analyse the man, the myth and his long-reaching legacy.

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John Company's Armies is intended for both the specialist seeking the first comprehensive account of a force traditionally examined to explain the outbreak of the 1857 Mutiny, and for readers such as family historians needing to understand how the army of a distant relative was formed, functioned, and how it fought.

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Lost Boys of Anzac traces who these men were, where they came from and why they came to volunteer for the AIF in 1914. It follows what happened to them in uniform and, using sources overlooked for nearly a century, uncovers where and how they died, on the ridges and gullies of Gallipoli - where most of them remain to this day.

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A riveting account of a day that stopped a nation -- and a community. The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people -- wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia's history. Ten of those people died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne's outskirts.