Peter Stanley bibliography

Peter Stanley is a prominent Australian military historian, who specialises in the military-social experience of war in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. In a career spanning over three decades, Stanley has worked as an Historian and later Head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial (1980–2007), Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia (2007–13) and, since 2013, as Research Professor at the University of New South Wales in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society.^[1] Starting in 1977—and as at 2015—Stanley has written 25 books and edited four others, published a novel and co-authored a booklet, in addition to at least 21 book chapters, 52 journal articles, seven encyclopaedia entries and numerous papers. In 2011, his book Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force (2010) was the joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History.^[2]

Books

• — (1985). Bomber Command. Illustrated by Colin Archer. Lane Cove, New South Wales: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0340377208. 
• — (1986). A Guide to the Australian War Memorial. Sydney: John Ferguson in association with Australian War Memorial. ISBN 0642994943. 
• —; Bradley, J.; Fogarty, B.; Hobbs, K.; Macpherson, P.; Piggott, M.; Self, B. (1986). Roll Call! A Guide to Genealogical Sources in the Australian War Memorial. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. ISBN 0642994951. 
• — (1986). The Remote Garrison: The British Army in Australia 1788–1870. Uniform illustrations by Lindsay Cox. Brisbane: Kangaroo Press. ISBN 0864170912. 
• — (1987). Air Battle, Europe 1939–1945. Sydney: Time-life Books, Australia in association with John Ferguson. ISBN 0949118052. 
• — (1993). Rosemary & Wattle: The Roll of Honour, Hall of Memory and Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. ISBN 0642197865. 
• — (1997). Tarakan: An Australian Tragedy. St. Leonards, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1864482788. 
• — (1998). White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India, 1825–1875. London: Hurst. ISBN 1850653305. 
• —; Johnston, Mark (2002). Alamein: The Australian Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195516303. 
• —; Reid, Richard; Moremon, John; Anderson, Nola (2002). Stolen Years: Australian Prisoners of War. Canberra: Department of Veterans’ Affairs. ISBN 1877007153. 
• — (2003). For Fear of Pain, British Surgery, 1790–1850. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 9042010347. 
• — (2004). Whyalla at War 1939–45. Whyalla, South Australia: Corporation of the City of Whyalla, with publishing assistance from East Street Publications. ISBN 0975114549. 
• — (2005). Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1741143322. 
• — (2005). Borneo, 1942–1945. Canberra: Department of Veterans’ Affairs. ISBN 1920720502. 
• — (2008). Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942. Camberwell, Victoria: Viking. ISBN 9780670029259. 
• — (2008). A Stout Pair of Boots: A Guide to Exploring Australia's Battlefields. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781741756654. 
• — (2009). Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death. Carlton North, Victoria: Scribe. ISBN 9781921215339. 
• — (2009). Commando to Colditz: Micky Burn's Journey to the Far Side of Tears – The Raid on St Nazaire. Millers Point, New South Wales: Murdoch/Pier 9. ISBN 9781741963847. 
• — (2010). Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force. Sydney: Murdoch/Pier 9. ISBN 9781741964806. 
• — (2011). Simpson's Donkey: A Wartime Journey to Gallipoli and Beyond. Illustrated by Michelle Dawson. Sydney: Murdoch/Pier 9. ISBN 9781741968118. 
• — (2011). Digger Smith and Australia's Great War: Ordinary Name – Extraordinary Stories. Millers Point, New South Wales: Murdoch/Pier 9. ISBN 9781741966800. 
• — (2013). Black Saturday at Steels Creek. Brunswick, Victoria: Scribe Publications. ISBN 9781922070333. 
• — (2014). Lost boys of Anzac. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. ISBN 9781742233970. 
• — (2015). Die in Battle, Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli, 1915. Solihull, United Kingdom: Helion & Company. ISBN 9781910294673. 
• —; Connor, John; Yule, Peter (2015). The War at Home. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195576788. 

Novels

• — (2014). The Cunning Man. Manuka, Australian Capital Territory: Bobby Graham Publishers. ISBN 9780987404183. 

Booklets

• —; Burness, Peter (1999). A Guide to the Battlefields and Memorials of the Boer War. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. 

Edited books

• —, ed. (1983). What Did You Do In the War, Daddy?: A Visual History of Propaganda Posters / A Selection from the Australian War Memorial. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195544046. 
• —; McKernan, Michael, eds. (1984). Australians at war, 1885–1972: Photographs From the Collection of the Australian War Memorial. Sydney: Collins. ISBN 0002172895. 
• —, ed. (1985). But Little Glory: The New South Wales Contingent to the Sudan, 1885. Canberra: Military Historical Society of Australia. ISBN 0909859248. 
• —; McKernan, Michael, eds. (1986). Anzac Day Seventy Years On. Sydney: Collins. ISBN 0002175428. 

Articles and chapters

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Book chapters

• — (1988). "Soldiers and Fellow Countrymen in Colonial Australia". In Browne, Margaret; McKernan, Michael. Australia: Two Centuries of War and Peace. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. ISBN 9780642995025. 
• — (1995). "Anzac and Army: Reflections on Army and Society in Australia, 1895–1995". In Horner, David. Armies and Nation-Building: Past Experience – Future Prospects. Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. ISBN 0731523008. 
• — (1998). "Who Won the War in 1944?: Nationalism and Australian Historians of the Second World War". In Bridge, Carl. Ranging Shots: New Directions in Australian Military History. London: Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, University of London. ISBN 1855070928. 
• — (2001). "Military Culture and Military Protest: The Bengal Europeans and The 'White Mutiny' of 1859". In Hathaway, Jane. Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Perspective. Westport: Praeger. ISBN 0275970108. 
• — (2001). "Borneo". In Beaumont, Joan. Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics. The Australian Centenary History of Defence 6. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195541182. 
• — (2001). "Volunteer Defence Corps". In Beaumont, Joan. Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics. The Australian Centenary History of Defence 6. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195541182. 
• — (2002). "The Men Who Did the Fighting Are Now All Busy Writing: Australian Post-Mortems on Defeat in Malaya and Singapore, 1942–45". In Farrell, Brian; Hunter, Sandy. Sixty Years On: The Fall of Singapore Revisited. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press. ISBN 9789812102027. 
• — (2003). "The Gunner: J.E. Macdonnell and the Face of Naval Battle". In Reeve, John; Stevens, David. The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Modern War at Sea. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen &​ Unwin. ISBN 1865086673. 
• — (2003). "Gavin Long and History at the Australian War Memorial". In Grey, Jeffrey. The Last Word?: Essays on Official History in the United States and the British Commonwealth. Westport: Praeger. ISBN 0313310831. 
• — (2004). "'He's (Not) Coming South': The Invasion That Wasn't". In Bullard, Steven; Keiko, Tamura. From A Hostile Shore: Australia and Japan At War in New Guinea (PDF). Canberra: Australian War Memorial. ISBN 0975190407. 
• — (2004). "Tarakan: An Australian Tragedy". In Gerster, Robin; Pierce, Peter. On the War-path: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0522850871. 
• — (2005). "Finest Hour: The British Commonwealth at War". In Brandon, Laura. Shared Experience: Art & War: Australia, Britain & Canada in the Second World War. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. ISBN 0975190423. 
• — (2006). "Imperial Military History". In Hughes, Matthew; Philpott, William J. Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403917676. 
• — (2008). "Kokoda". In Cochrane, Peter. Australian Greats. Sydney: William Heinemann. ISBN 9781741665925. 
• — (2008). "The Gallipoli Campaign: History and Memory, Myth and Legend". In Gare, Deborah; Ritter, David. Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788. Sydney: Thomson. ISBN 9780170346924. 
• — (2010). "Dramatic Myth and Dull Truth: Invasion by Japan in 1942". In Stockings, Craig. Zombie Myths of Australian Military History. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 9781742230795. 
• — (2011). "Revealing Revealing Gallipoli". In Beirne, Rebecca; Bennett, James. Making Film and Television Histories. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781848859432. 
• — (2011). "'He Was Black, He Was a White Man, and a Dinkum Ausie': Race and Empire in Revisiting the Anzac Legend". In Das, Santanu. Race, Empire and First World War Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521509848. 
• — (2011). "War and Australia’s Museums". In Griffin, Des; Paroissien, Leon. Understanding Museums: Australian Museums and Museology (EBOOK). Canberra: National Museum of Australia. 
• — (2012). "Monumental Mistake: Is War the Most Important Thing in Australian History?". In Stockings, Craig. Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. ISBN 9781742232881. 
• — (2013). "War Without End". In Clark, Anna; Ashton, Paul. Australian History Now. Sydney: NewSouth. ISBN 9781742233710. 

Journal articles

• — (April 1977). "Kitchener's Army and the North of England, 1914–1916". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 18 (2): 88–91. 
• — (September 1980). "A Mere Point of Military Etiquette: The Norfolk Island Mutiny of 1839". The Push from the Bush: A Bulletin of Social History (7): 1–12. 
• — (January 1981). "Bluey the Sig: The Memoirs of Sapper Dadswell". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 22 (1): 7–12. 
• — (April 1981). "'An Entente ... Most Remarkable': Indians at Anzac". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 22 (2): 17–21. 
• — (November 1981). "'Oh! The Sufferings of My Men': The 80th Regiment in New South Wales in 1838". The Push from the Bush: A Bulletin of Social History (11): 1–22. 
• — (January 1982). "RQMS Neaves at Pozières". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 23 (1): 13–17. 
• — (April 1983). "Ensign Hamilton's Letter". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 24 (2). 
• — (July 1983). "Reflections on Bean's Last Paragraph". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 24 (3): 4–11. 
• — (January 1984). "British Infantry Regiments of the Line and the Empire, 1840–69". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 25 (1): 4–7. 
• — (March 1984). "The Army in Decay?". Soldiers of the Queen: The Journal of the Victorian Military Society (36): 10–12. 
• — (April 1984). "A Note On a Lone Pine Uniform". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 25 (2): 23–24. 
• — (April 1984). "Frederick Whirlpool, VC". Journal of the Australian War Memorial. 
• — (July 1984). "Australian Joint Copying Project: Recent Additions of Australian Military Historical Interest". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 25 (3). 
• — (October 1984). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 1". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 25 (4). 
• — (January 1985). "Colonial Military History in Australia". Soldiers of the Queen: The Journal of the Victorian Military Society (41): 16–18. 
• — (April 1985). "Gallipoli and Pozières: A Legend and a Memorial". Australian Foreign Affairs Record 56 (4): 282–289. 
• — (January 1985). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 2". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 26 (1). 
• — (April 1985). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 3". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 26 (2). 
• — (July 1985). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 4". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 26 (3). 
• — (January 1986). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 5". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 27 (1). 
• — (April 1986). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 6". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 27 (2). 
• — (October 1986). "Witness to History: A Diary of the Sydney-Emden Battle". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 27 (4). 
• — (January 1987). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 7". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 28 (1). 
• — (April 1987). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 8". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 28 (2). 
• — (January 1988). "The Soldiers on the Hill: The Defence of Whyalla, 1939–1945: Part 9". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 29 (1). 
• — (April 1988). "The Uniforms of The Remote Garrison: An Argument About the Interpretation of Historical Dress". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 29 (2): 20–32. 
• — (October 1988). "'A Horn to Put Your Powder In': Interpreting Artefacts of British Soldiers in Colonial Australia". Journal of the Australian War Memorial: 13–29. 
• — (October 1988). "Calling a Truce: 'Amateurs' and 'Academics' in Australian Military History". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 29 (4): 21–27. 
• — (March 1990). "The Riddles of ANZAC" (PDF). Australian Defence Force Journal (81): 70–73. 
• — (March 1991). "Heritage of Strangers: The Australian Army's British legacy" (PDF). Australian Defence Force Journal (87): 21–26. 
• — (November 1991). "Research and the Australian War Memorial: The AWM Research Grants Scheme, 1976–91". Journal of the Australian War Memorial: 42–43. 
• — (April 1993). "The Green Hole: Exploring Our Neglect of the New Guinea Campaigns of 1943–44". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 34 (2): 3–11. 
• — (November 1993). "Happy Birthday, HRS: A Decade of the Australian War Memorial's Historical Research Section". Public History Review: 54–65. 
• — (April 1994). "Echoes of the Guns: Remembering the Great War, 1914–18". Journal of the Australian War Memorial (24). 
• — (October 1994). "'Sniffing the Ground': Australians and Borneo – 1945, 1994". Journal of the Australian War Memorial (25). 
• — (1996). "'Dear Comrades': Barrack-room Culture and the 'White Mutiny' of 1859–60". Indo-British Review. 
• — (June 1996). "Shaik Abdoolah, or the Reluctant Renegade". Soldiers of the Queen: The Journal of the Victorian Military Society (85). 
• — (August 1996). "The Moon under Water: The Australian War Memorial's Staff Research Policy". Museum National 5 (1). 
• — (Winter 1996). "'Highly Inflammatory Writings': Soldiers' Graffiti and the Indian Rebellion". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 74 (4). 
• — (March 1998). "'Our Big World': The Social History of the Light Horse Regiment, 1916–18". Sabretache: Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia 39 (1). 
• — (November 1998). "'A Reasonable Degree of Recognition': The Australian War Memorial, Veterans and the Second World War Gallery". Locality. 
• — (March 1999). "Being Dead, Yet Speaketh: Berhampore, a Bengal Cantonment". Soldiers of the Queen: The Journal of the Victorian Military Society (96). 
• — (October 2002). "Great in Adversity: Indian Prisoners of War in New Guinea". Journal of the Australian War Memorial 37. 
• — (Spring 2005). "Threat Made Manifest". Griffith Review (9): 11–24. 
• — (Autumn–Winter 2005). "Australia and 1945". Everyone's War: The Journal of the Second World War Experience Centre (12). 
• — (July 2005). "'An Extraordinary Town...': Whyalla Sixty Years Ago". History Matters 15 (2). 
• — (2007). "In the Street of the Historians: Practising History at the Australian War Memorial" (PDF). Dialogue: Academy of the Social sciences in Australia 26 (2). 
• — (Winter 2007). "What is the Battle for Australia?" (PDF). Australian Army Journal 4 (2): 17–34. 
• — (August 2008). "Reflections of a Public Historian on a Battle for Australia". Symposium: Newsletter of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (40): 14–17. 
• — (April 2010). "Working Machines and 'Broken Britain': Re-enactment and the Historical Politics of Goodwood Revival". reCollections: A Journal of Museums and Collections 5 (1). 
• — (March 2015). "'Leaving for the Dardanelles' 1915" (PDF). The National Library of Australia Magazine 7 (1): 18–19. 
• — (Winter 2015). "A Hundred in a Million". Griffith Review (48). 

Conference proceedings

• — (1995). "An Oboe Concerto: Reflections on the Borneo landings, 1945". In Wahlert, Glenn. Australian Army Amphibious Operations in the South-West Pacific 1942–45: Edited Papers of the Australian Army History Conference Held at the Australian War Memorial, 15 November 1994 (PDF). Georges Heights, New South Wales: Army Doctrine Centre. ISBN 0642226679. 
• — (2000). "With Banjo to Kimberley: Banjo Paterson's South African Verse as History". In Dennis, Peter; Grey, Jeffrey. The Boer War: Army, Nation and Empire: The 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial Military History Conference (PDF). Canberra: Army History Unit. ISBN 0642704821. 
• — (2001). "Diversity of Visitors, Diversity of Interpretation: The Australian War Memorial's Second World War Gallery". In McIntyre, Darryl; Wehner, Kirsten. Negotiating Histories: National Museums: Conference Proceedings. Canberra: National Museum of Australia. ISBN 1876944013. 
• — (2004). "The Green Hole Reconsidered". In Dennis, Peter; Grey, Jeffrey. Foundations of Victory; The Pacific War 1943–1944: The Chief of Army's History Conference 2003 (PDF). Canberra: Army History Unit. ISBN 0646435906. 

Encyclopaedia entries

• — (1995). "The British Army in Australia". In Dennis, Peter; Grey, Jeffrey; Ewan, Morris et al. The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195532279.  |displayeditors= suggested (help)
• — (2003). "Army Temperance Association". In Fahey, David; Tyrrell, Ian; Blocker, Jack. Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia I. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576078337. 
• — (2004). "Australia". In Keat Gin, Ooi. Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576077705. 
• — (2004). "Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten". In Keat Gin, Ooi. Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576077705. 
• — (2004). "General Douglas MacArthur". In Keat Gin, Ooi. Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576077705. 
• — (2004). "Sandakan Death March". In Keat Gin, Ooi. Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576077705. 
• — (2004). "South-East Asia Command". In Keat Gin, Ooi. Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576077705. 

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