INVADING AUSTRALIA

Dr Peter Stanley became Head of the new Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia in 2007. He had been Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, where he had worked since 1980 and where he curated the Second World War Gallery that opened in 1999. Peter is one of Australia’s most productive historians in the areas of military, social and medical history. His books include Tarakan: An Australian Tragedy; For Fear of Pain: British Surgery 1790–1850 and Quinn’s Post, Anzac, Gallipoli, and he is well known from his media appearances. Invading Australia is his nineteenth book.