The following is this editor’s library on soldiering. It is in no particular order, though perhaps mostly in the order that each book was purchased; since 1982 when at the time ‘war‘ was the curricular theme for one’s HSC English.
We buy through and recommend shopping from Books on War Australia, https://booksonwaraustralia.com/
Other reliable book sellers that we have used:
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
(translated into English by Arthur Wesley Wheen)
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Clausewitz On War
by Carl von Clausewitz
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
by Robert B. Strassler and Victor Davis Hanson
General Patton: A Soldier’s Life
by
A Genius For War: A Life of George S. Patton
by Carlo D’Este
The Soldier’s Story: The Battle at Xã Long Tân, Vietnam, 18 August 1966
by Terry Burstall
Token Soldiers
by John Carroll
Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1986
by Chris Clark
Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-2001
by Darren Moore
Jacka, VC: Australia’s Finest Fighting Soldier
by Ian Grant
Backs to the Wall
by G.D. Mitchell
Larrikins in Khaki
by Tim Bowden
Long Tân: A Reappraisal – The greatest challenge faced by an Australia infantry company during the Vietnam War
by Fred Fairhead
All Guts and No Glory
by Bob Buick
The Battle of Long Tân: The Legend of ANZAC Upheld
by Lex McAuley
Long Tân and Beyond: Alpha Company 6 RAR in Vietnam 1966-67
by Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Mollison
A Soldier Returns: A Long Tân veteran discovers the other side of Vietnam
by Terry Burstall
Through Enemy Eyes
by Dave Sabben, MC
Mentions in Despatches
by Dave Sabben, MC
‘Wartime’ Magazine
The Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial
Two sample issues:
Warrior Soldier Brigand – Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force
by Ben Wadham and James Connor
Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War
by Roland Perry
Scapegoat of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant’s Bushveldt Carbineers
by George Witton
The Breaker – The Life of Breaker Morant – Poet, Horseman, Mercenary, Murderer?
by Kit Denton
Bushveldt Carbineers: The War Against the Boers in South Africa and the ‘Breaker’ Morant Incident
by George Witton
Major Thomas: The Bush Lawyer Who Defended Breaker Morant and Took on the British Empire
by Greg Growden
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain 1914-1945
by Gary Sheffield
This is the SAS: A pictorial history of the Special Air Service Regiment
by Tony Geraghty
SAS Daggers Drawn: In For the Kill: the Mavericks Who Made the SAS
by Damien Lewis
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop
by Australian Surgeon Colonel Sir Ernest Edward “Weary” Dunlop, AC, CMG, OBE
