Peter Stanley: 28 books

Book cover of Charles Bean

Charles Bean

Man, Myth, Legacy

by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017

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. Famously criticized for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant,...
Book cover of Bad Characters
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

Australians have celebrated the Anzacs for nearly a century--but what do we really know of what war did to them? Charles Bean, historian of the citizen soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force, wrote that its history spanned 'the good and the bad'--but so far Australians have only looked at the good. Leading...
Book cover of Simpson's Donkey
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

Based on the most famous animal in Australian history Simpson's Donkey tells the story of his service during the Gallipoli campaign where for three weeks he was one of several donkeys that Simpson used to carry wounded men down to Anzac Cove. His life before and after Gallipoli is a mystery but Peter...
Book cover of A Stout Pair Of Boots
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

From the Western Front, to the Burma-Thailand railway, Kokoda to Gallipoli, the essential guide for travellers to the places where Australian armed forces fought overseas. Australians are becoming increasingly fascinated by their military history, and every year greater numbers visit the scenes of the...
Book cover of A Stout Pair of Boots

A Stout Pair of Boots

A guide to exploring Australia's battlefields

by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

Australians are becoming increasingly fascinated by their military history, and every year greater numbers visit the scenes of the battles commemorated each Anzac Day - Villers-Bretonneux, Long Tan, Kokoda, Gallipoli itself. But what can you learn from visiting a battlefield? And how do you make sure...
Book cover of Lost Boys of Anzac
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But does anyone know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war? Peter Stanley goes looking for the lost boys of Anzac: the men...
Book cover of Black Saturday at Steels Creek
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013

The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people — wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia’s history. Ten of those victims died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne’s outskirts. It was a beautiful place, which its residents had long treasured and loved. By the...
Book cover of Tarakan

Tarakan

An Australian tragedy

by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997

In 1945, 240 Australians died taking the small Borneo island of Tarakan from the Japanese. The tragedy of Tarakan was that by the time they succeeded, they need not have begun. Peter Stanley explores that battle, what it was like and what it means to us over fifty years on. He traces the operation...
Book cover of Invading Australia: Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

Invading Australia: Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008

**1942 was a key year in Australia's history.**�As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour and Australian Militiamen died on the Kokoda Trail.Each...
Book cover of Quinn's Post

Quinn's Post

Anzac, Gallipoli

by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005

For the entire Anzac campaign, Quinn's Post was central to the defence of the positions at Gallipoli. Its loss would have opened the way to a Turkish assault on the heart of the Anzac areas. It is one of the most evocative names at Gallipoli along with Anzac Cove, Lone Pine and the Nek. Yet...
Book cover of Digger Smith and Australia's Great War
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

Smiths were among the first men to land at Gallipoli. Smiths fought and died at Pozieres, Bullecourt and Passchendaele. Smiths were wounded - and treated by doctors and nurses named Smith. At home, Smiths penned patriotic doggerel and spoke vociferously against conscription. There was Grace Cossington...
Book cover of Armenia, Australia & the Great War
by Vicken Babkenian, Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became...
Book cover of Commando to Colditz
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

A compelling, riveting read, Commando to Colditz is an unusual perhaps unique war story. It is centred around a most unusual war hero: Michael 'Micky' Burn, soldier, poet and novelist, whose journey from fascist follower, to commander of Six Troop, to Commando, to prisoner (and communist lecturer)...
Book cover of After Disaster
by Peter Stanley,Sarah Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2011

Responding to the psychological consequences of disasters for children and young people
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