Recommended Reading List

1st–15th Australian Infantry Brigade war diaries 1915–1919; Australian War Memorial, Canberra, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/

Various battalion war diaries; Australian War Memorial, Canberra, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1338654

 

Bean, C. E. W., Anzac to Amiens, Penguin Books Australia, Melbourne, 1993

—— (ed.), Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–18, Angus & Robertson, Sydney: Vol. I, The Story of Anzac, 1921; Vol. II, The Story of Anzac, 1937; Vol. III, The AIF in France, 1937; Vol. IV, The AIF in France, 1933; Vol. V, The AIF in France During the Main German Offensive, 1918, 1933; Vol. VI, The AIF in France During the Main German Offensive, 1918

Carlyon, Les, The Great War, Macmillan, Sydney, 2006

Davies, W., The Boy Colonel, Random House, Sydney, 2013

Downing, W. H., To the Last Ridge: The World War I Experiences of W. H. Downing, Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1998

Edgar, P., To Villers-Bretonneux, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, 2006

Gammage, W., The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, Penguin Books Australia, Melbourne, 1975

Jordan, L., Stealth Raiders, Penguin Random House, Sydney, 2017

Lynch, Private E., Somme Mud, Random House, Sydney, 2006

Marks, D. G., Sundry Jottings, Sydney, 1919, catalogued as Marks War Diary, 7 August 1914–21 December 1918, MLMSS 2879, Mitchell Library, Sydney

Maxwell, J., VC, Hell’s Bells and Mademoiselles, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1939

McMullin, R., Pompey Elliott, Scribe, Melbourne, 2002

Mitchell, G. D., Backs to the Wall: A Larrikin on the Western Front, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007

Molkentin, M., Fire in the Sky: The Australian Flying Corps in the First World War, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2010

Monash, General Sir John, The Australian Victories in France in 1918, Hutchinson, London, 1920

Pedersen, P., ANZACS on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, 2012

Rule, E. J., Jacka’s Mob, Military Melbourne, Melbourne, 1999

Serle, G., John Monash: A Biography, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1982

Stanley, P., Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force, Pier 9, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2010

State Library of New South Wales, Records of the European War Collecting Project, established by the Trustees of the Mitchell Library in 1918

Wanliss, N., The History of the 14th Battalion AIF: Being the Vicissitudes of an Australian Unit During the Great War, Melbourne, 1929

White, T. A., Diggers Abroad: Jottings by a Digger Officer, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1920 Yockelson, M., Borrowed Soldiers: Americans Under British Command, 1918, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008

Battalion histories (in numerical order)

Taylor, F. W. and Cusack, T. A., Nulli Secundus: A History of the Second Battalion AIF 1914–1919

Wren, E., Randwick to Hargicourt: History of the 3rd Battalion AIF

Dean, A. and Gutteridge, E. W., The Seventh Battalion AIF: Resume of the Activities of the Seventh Battalion in the Great War 1914–1918

Harvey, N. K., From Anzac to the Hindenburg Line: The History of the 9th Battalion

Lock, C. B. L., The Fighting 10th: Souvenir of the 10th Battalion AIF 1914–1919

Gill, I., Fremantle to France: 11th Battalion AIF 1914–1919

Newton, L. M., The Story of the Twelfth: A Record of the 12th Battalion During the Great War

White, T. A., The Fighting Thirteenth: A History of the Thirteenth Battalion AIF, 13th Battalion A.I.F. Committee, Sydney, 1924

Wanliss, N., The History of the Fourteenth Battalion AIF

Chataway, T. P., A History of the 15th Battalion 1914–1918

MacKenzie, K. W., The Story of the Seventeenth Battalion AIF

McGuinness, P., Boldly and Faithfully: History of the 19th Battalion AIF

MacNeil, A. R., The Story of the Twenty-First: Being the Official History of the 21st Battalion AIF

Gorman, E., A History of the 22nd Battalion AIF

Harvey, W. J., The Red and White Diamond: The Authorised History of the 24th Battalion AIF

Doneley, B., Black over Blue: The 25th Battalion, AIF at War 1915–1918

Dollman, W. and Skinner, H. M., The Blue and Brown Diamond: History of the 27th Battalion AIF 1915–1919

Kahan, H. K., The 28th Battalion AIF: A Record of War Service

Sloan, H., The Purple and Gold: A History of the 30th Battalion

Edwards, John, Never a Backward Step: History of the 33rd Battalion AIF

Beaver, E., Short History of the 34th Battalion AIF

McNicol, N. G., The Thirty-Seventh: A History of the Thirty-Seventh Battalion, AIF

Fairey, E., The Story and Official History of the 38th Battalion AIF

Paterson, A. T., The Thirty-Ninth: The History of the Thirty Ninth Battalion AIF

Green, F. C., The Fortieth: A Record of the 40th Battalion, AIF

The Forty First – compiled by members of the Intelligence Staff

Browning, N., The Westralian Battalion: A History of the 44th Battalion

Longmore, C., Eggs-a-Cook: The Story of the Forty-Fourth

Lee, J. E., The Chronicle of the 45th Battalion AIF

Polanski, I. L., We Were the 46th: History of the 46th Battalion in the Great War 1914–18

Browning, N., Leane’s Battalion: The History of the 48th Battalion AIF 1916–1919

Browning, N., For King and Cobbers: The History of the 51st Battalion AIF 1916–1919

Browning, N., Fix Bayonets: The History of the 51st Battalion AIF

St Claire, R., Our Gift to the Empire: 54th Australian Infantry Battalion 1916–1919

Corfield, R., Hold Hard, Cobbers: 57th and 60th Battalions AIF

Histories of other units

Keatinge, M. B. B., The War Book of the Third Pioneer Battalion

Cutlack, F. M., Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Vol. VIII, The Australian Flying Corps

Carne, W. A., In Good Company: History of the 6th Machine Gun Company AIF

Ellis, A. D., The Story of the Fifth Australian Division

Hunter, D. J., My Corps Cavalry

Woodward, O. H., The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, AIF