John Blaxland: 3 books
by John Blaxland
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard is the first critical examination of Australia's post-Vietnam military operations, spanning the 35 years between the election of Gough Whitlam and the defeat of John Howard. John Blaxland explores the 'casualty cringe' felt by political leaders following...
The Secret Cold War
The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world.
Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine...
The Protest Years
The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering,...