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VUNG TAU FERRY (HMAS SYDNEY) AND ESCORT SHIPS (VIETNAM 1965-1972)
This book recognise the major contribution of those many members of the
Royal Australian Navy whose dedicated service in the Vietnam war was for
so long ignored. These are the 9,800 RAN personnel who, through
dedication to the task over seven years transported safely and on time
about 15,600 Army and RAAF personnel, along with many tons of weapons,
stores and equipment during the 25 operational voyages HMAS Sydney and
her escorting destroyers made to and from Vietnam.
The book includes: a nominal list of those who served, the dates and
composition of the 25 Troop Transport Task Force groups that served in
the operational area, and first hand accounts by sailors and soldiers
who sailed in HMAS Sydney and the Escort Ships of the RAN, namely HMAS
Melbourne, HMAS Anzac, HMAS Derwent, HMAS Duchess, HMAS Parramatta, HMAS
Stuart, HMAS Swan, HMAS Torrens, HMAS Vampire, HMAS Vendetta and HMAS
Yarra.
Authors Rodney Nott and Noel Payne are veterans of this major Vietnam
logistic operation.
210 x 148 mm, 272 pages, 35 photographs, 4 maps. ISBN
9781877058721, RRP $29.95 Due for release in April, available to
Members: March 2008
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TERRITORY The Untold Story of The Royal Australian Navy in Southeast
Asia 1948 to 1971
Between 1948, when Australia assumed strategic responsibility for
British Commonwealth sea lines of communication to and from Southeast
Asia and 1971, when the Five Power Defence Arrangements came into
effect, ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy served with almost
unnoticed distinction in defending the newly emerging nations of Malaya,
Malaysia and Singapore. With British and New Zealand forces, they fought
against insurrection and infiltration during the Malayan Emergency
between 1955 and 1960 and countered Indonesian incursions and
infiltrations into Malaysia and Singapore during Confrontation
(1964-66). In the process, RAN personnel held key positions in the Royal
Malaysian Navy during its most challenging period of development and
growth.
In this period of intense diplomatic and military activity in a
potentially volatile region, Australia developed its engagement with
Southeast Asia and its concept of ‘forward defence’. While the Vietnam
War loomed ever larger over the region, the RAN played its part in
creating the conditions for the peace and prosperity Malaysia and
Singapore now enjoy, by bombarding terrorist positions, engaging
Indonesian infiltrators in vicious firefights, providing support to land
forces, or patiently laying the foundations for the regional navies to
build upon. Tiger Territory tells of the naval men who delivered this
underappreciated achievement, and recounts their previously unpublished
experiences.
Paperback by Ian Pfennigwerth. 225 x 150 mm, 344 pages,
53 b&w photos and 9 maps. ISBN 9781877058653, RRP $29.95. Due for
release in April, available to Members: March 2008
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Cambridge University Press is proud to announce the impending
release on April 8 of "The Collins Class Submarine Story: Steel,
Spies and Spin". This is the first ever book devoted
entirely to an Australian defence procurement project - an
engagingly-styled and dispassionate assessment of the project
from professional historian Peter Yule and defence procurement
expert Derek Woolner.
The book details the trials of the project warts and all. The
authors were given access to all the Navy's documentation
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interviewing some 170 participants.
The result is a book that shows what lessons can be learned from
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The Royal Australian Navy in World War II
Edited by David Stevens
The definitive account of the part the Royal Australian Navy played in
the Second World War. With new material provided by leading naval
historians from Australia and overseas, this revised edition of The
Royal Australian Navy in World War II more fully examines the part the
Royal Australian Navy played throughout six years of global conflict.
Drawing on recently released official documents and the latest scholarly
research, new light is shed on the vital importance of Australia's role
in maritime campaigns in every theatre.
The coverage ranges from the exploits of individual ships and men to the
broad issues of strategy and naval policy. In lively accounts of
operations ranging from the Atlantic through the Mediterranean and to
the Pacific, both the triumphs and tragedies of war at sea are
critically considered. The home front, too, is not neglected and the
essential contributions of women and industry are analysed in detail.
Illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, The Royal
Australian Navy in World War II goes far towards encapsulating
Australia's naval war in one volume.
A former naval officer, David Stevens is a graduate of the University of
New South Wales and the Australian National University, and is currently
Director of Strategic and Historical Studies within the Sea Power Centre
Australia. He has written and edited several books on maritime strategy
and naval history. |
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The Navy and the Nation
Edited by David Stevens and John Reeve
The influence of the Navy on modern Australia - A history of the
Australian navy focusing on the contribution of the RAN in peace and war
to Australia's development and the potential it has to continue this
into the future.
Australia has often been described as a nation shaped by war. From an
early age, every Australian is taught the significance of Gallipoli and
the Anzac legend. This, however, is but one dimension of the military's
impact on our nation's coming of age. Australia, after all, is an
island. It was the Navy which explored and founded European Australia,
and it is the Navy which has ever since been critical to our national
security.
With its ancestry in the Royal Navy and the former colony-based navies,
the Australian Navy was established in 1901. Since that time it has
helped Australia enter the international community as a modern,
self-reliant nation and has been indispensable in protecting Australia's
sovereignty and national interests.
Despite the Navy being one of Australia's oldest and most important
institutions, the links between nation-building and the Navy have never
before received detailed study. Bringing together scholars from
Australia and overseas, The Navy and the Nation examines the extent of
the Navy's contribution to our national development. It shows, too, how
the Navy has played a vital role in defining our independent national
identity.
A former naval officer, David Stevens is a graduate of the University of
New South Wales and the Australian National University, and is currently
Director of Strategic and Historical Studies within the Sea Power Centre
- Australia. He has written and edited several books on maritime
strategy and naval history.
John Reeve is Senior Lecturer and Osborne Fellow in Naval History at the
University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
He has written extensively on early modern and contemporary diplomatic
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A No Pleasure Cruise - The story of the Royal
Australian Navy
Dr Tom Frame
A comprehensive, easy-to-read history of the Royal Australian Navy from
its inception in 1901 to the present day.
In 1901 Australia's fledgling Federal Government assumed the
responsibility for the new nation's defence. Their first task was to
take the aged and obsolete remnants of the colonies' navies and create a
national navy to defend our island's coastal waters and overseas trade
routes.
For the first 40 years the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) was designed to
serve alongside the Royal Navy, and resembled it in everything but
scale. After the Second World War the RAN developed along US lines but,
despite these overseas ties, the RAN has developed its own proud
character and tradition and has entered the twenty-first century as a
confident and independent force in its own right.
In No Pleasure Cruise, Australia's best-known naval historian, Dr Tom
Frame, charts the RAN's emergence as one of the world's strongest and
most respected navies, and its evolving relationship with the Australian
public, press and parliament.
About Dr Tom Frame -
Dr Tom Frame is a former RAN officer, a leading naval historian and the
author of numerous bestselling naval histories including Mutiny!, Where
Fate Calls: the HMAS Voyager tragedy and HMAS Sydney: loss and
controversy.
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A Very Rude Awakening - The night
the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour
Peter Grose - Paperback
A ground-breaking new look at one of the most extraordinary stories of
Australia at war.
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best:
partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens,
clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors,
soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war
seemed far away. Newspapers devoted more pages to horse racing than to
Hitler.
That Sunday night the party came to a shattering halt when three
Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour, past eight electronic
indicator loops, past six patrolling Royal Australian Navy ships, and
past an anti-submarine net stretched across the inner harbour entrance.
Their arrival triggered a night of mayhem, courage, chaos and high farce
which left 27 sailors dead and a city bewildered. The war, it seemed,
was no longer confined to distant desert and jungle. It was right here
at Australia's front door.
Written at the pace of a thriller and based on new first person accounts
and previously unpublished official documents, A Very Rude Awakening is
a ground-breaking and myth-busting look at one of the most extraordinary
stories ever told of Australia at war.
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