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  • The Protest Years

    The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

    by John Blaxland ...
    Series Book 2 - OFFICIAL HISTORY OF ASIO
    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, ASIO was concerned that protests were being orchestrated to foment revolution.The Protest Years ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • East Timor Intervention

    A retrospective on INTERFET

    by John Blaxland ...
    Australia's involvement in the liberation of East Timor in 1999 was the most decisive demonstration of Australian influence in the region since World War II and the largest military contribution since the Vietnam War. Australian diplomacy and leadership shaped the events that led to the birth of Asia's newest nation.East Timor Intervention looks at the crisis through the prism of key participants ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard

    by John Blaxland ...
    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 war and how this impacted subsequent operations. He contends that the Australian Army's ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The Secret Cold War

    The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989

    by John Blaxland, Rhys Crawley ...
    Series Book 3 - OFFICIAL HISTORY OF ASIO
    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 operations in Australia by foreign intelligence operatives and the violence-prone activities of local ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • Mobilising the Australian Army

    Contingencies and Compromises Over More than a Century

    Edited by John Blaxland ...
    Army has always been faced with the questions of what type of war it should aim to prepare for, and in what context it should prepare. Mobilising the Australian Army explores the rich history of the Australian Army, the challenges of preparing armies for war in uncertain times, and the many possibilities for their continuing strength and future success. Comprising research presented at the 2021 ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Revealing Secrets

    An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence and the advent of cyber

    by Clare Birgin, John Blaxland ...
    What is Australian signals intelligence? Why do we have a national signals intelligence agency and why are our three armed services involved? What do they all do and why is it controversial? And how significant are our ties with, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, the formidable Five Eyes partnership? For a long time, much of the Australian Signals intelligence (or ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations

    History, Memory and Current Developments

    by Gregory Raymond, John Blaxland ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    Thailand, a long-standing defence partner of the United States and ASEAN’s second largest economy, occupies a geostrategically important position as a land bridge between China and maritime Southeast Asia. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the current state of US-Thai relations, paying particular attention to how the United States is perceived by a wide range of people in ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    Inside Qatar

    Hidden Stories from the World’s Richest Nation

    by John McManus ...
    Narrated by Frazer Blaxland ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    An intimate portrait of life in the world’s richest nation ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup.Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant ... Read more

    $23.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Spy Catchers

    The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963

    by David Horner ...
    Series Book 1 - OFFICIAL HISTORY OF ASIO
    Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian HistoryFor the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skripov in 1963.From the start, ASIO's mission was to catch spies. In the late 1940s, the ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • Defending the Lion City

    The armed forces of Singapore

    by Tim Huxley ...
    Series series THE ARMED FORCES OF ASIA
    Singapore is located in the heart of the Muslim Malay world, yet 78 per cent of its population is ethnically Chinese. The prosperous city-state relies on outside sources for virtually all its water and food; it has no access to the high seas, on which it depends for 85 per cent of its trade, except through its neighbours' waters. Physically linked to Malaysia by a causeway and a bridge, only ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Charlie Foxtrot

    Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada

    by Kim Richard Nossal ...
    Series Book 5 - Point of View
    Defence expert Kim Richard Nossal presents a damning indictment of defence procurement in Canada, and shows how to fix it.Defence procurement in Canada is a mess. New equipment is desperately needed for the Canadian Armed Forces, but most projects are behind schedule, over budget, or both. Not only has mismanagement cost Canadian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, it has also deprived ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Age of Invincible

    The Ship that Defined the Modern Royal Navy

    by Nick Childs ...
    A gripping account of one of the Royal Navy's most significant modern warships.The HMS Invincible is a ship whose eventful life story, it is argued, embodies that of the Royal Navy itself during the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. From her conception and design, through her various deployments (including the Falklands) and her evolving role and technical adaptation to meet ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus