David Horner - Australias Military History for Dummies

Australias Military History Dummies

by David Horner

Australias Military History For Dummies

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Author: Horner, D. M. (David Murray), 1948.

Title: Australias Military History For Dummies/ David Horner.

ISBN: 978 1 74216 983 5 (pbk.)

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Military history.
Australia Armed Forces History.
Australia Military policy History.
Australia History, Military.

Dewey Number: 355.00994

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About the Author

David Horner is Professor of Australian Defence History in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, the Australian Armys Command and Staff College, the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University, he served as an infantry platoon commander in Vietnam in 1971 and had various regimental and staff appointments until he retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 1990.

He is the author or editor of 28 books on Australian military history, strategy and defence, including Crisis of Command (1978), High Command (1982), SAS: Phantoms of the Jungle (1989), Inside the War Cabinet (1996), Blamey: The Commander-in-Chief (1998), Defence Supremo (2000), Making the Australian Defence Force (2001) and Strategic Command, General Sir John Wilton and Australias Asian Wars (2005). He is the editor of the Australian Armys military history series and has been the historical consultant for various television programs. As an Army Reserve colonel, from 1998 to 2002 he was the first Head of the Australian Armys Land Warfare Studies Centre.

In 2004 Professor Horner was appointed the Official Historian of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations, and in 2009 was made Member of the Order of Australia for service to military history.

He lives in Canberra, with his wife, Sigrid.

Dedication

To the men and women of the Australian Defence Force, who serve the nation at home and overseas with professionalism, dedication and sacrifice.

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