Books & Publications

A catalog of Peter Stanley’s published books, edited collections, and major co-authored works. If you would like to acquire a copy, direct purchase links are provided where available, alongside publication records for reference and out-of-print titles.

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2025 Big Sky Publishing

Oboe One, Tarakan, 1945

An Australian Tragedy.

A comprehensive account of the 1945 Australian amphibious operation off Borneo.

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2024 Big Sky Publishing

The Sherrin

A Bloody Battle on and Off the Field.

Exploring the intersection of Australian Rules football, wartime service, and home-front history.

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2024 Helion & Company

John Company’s Armies

The Military Forces of British India 1824–57.

An authoritative study of the East India Company's military forces in nineteenth-century India.

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2024 NewSouth

Beyond the Broken Years

Australian Military History in 1000 Books.

A landmark survey and evaluation of Australian military history writing across more than a century.

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2023 Taylor & Francis

Falklands/Malvinas 1982

A War of Two Sides (Co-authored).

Examining the 1982 South Atlantic conflict from both British and Argentine perspectives.

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2022 Hurst / Bloomsbury

Hul! Hul!

The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion, 1855.

A history of the fierce 1855 uprising in Bengal and the East India Company's military response.

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2019 Helion & Company

‘Terriers’ in India

British Territorials 1914–19.

The story of British Territorial soldiers deployed to garrison India during WWI.

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2018 National Library of Australia

Victory on Gallipoli

And Other What-ifs of Australian History (Edited).

An edited collection exploring counterfactual scenarios in Australian history.

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2017 NewSouth

Charles Bean

Man, Myth, Legacy (Edited).

Re-evaluating Australia’s official war correspondent and official historian.

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2016 NewSouth

Armenia, Australia & the Great War

With Vicken Babkenian.

The story of Australian humanitarian support for survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide.

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2017 National Library of Australia

The Crying Years

Australia’s Great War.

A moving visual and social history of how WWI transformed Australia at home.

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2015 Helion & Company

Die in Battle, Do Not Despair

The Indians on Gallipoli, 1915.

The first comprehensive study detailing the crucial role played by Indian troops at Gallipoli.

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2014 NewSouth

Lost Boys of Anzac

The 101 Australians killed on 25 April 1915.

A tragic, intimate study following the lives and fatal fates of young soldiers killed on day one.

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2013 Scribe Publications

Black Saturday at Steels Creek

Community & the 2009 Bushfires.

A history of a Victorian community devastated by the 2009 bushfires.

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2013 National Museum of Australia Press

Glorious Days

Australia 1913 (Edited by Michelle Hetherington).

An illustrated exploration of Australian life and society on the eve of the Great War.

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2011 Allen & Unwin

Digger Smith

Australia’s Great War.

A novel exploring an Australian soldier’s First World War experience.

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2011 Allen & Unwin

Simpson’s Donkey

A Wartime Journey to Gallipoli and Beyond.

The legendary Gallipoli story retold with historical clarity.

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2010 PM's History Prize Winner

Bad Characters

Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the AIF.

Joint winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History.

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2008 Penguin Viking

Invading Australia

Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942.

Examining wartime strategy and the myth of a planned Japanese invasion in 1942.

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2005 Allen & Unwin

Quinn’s Post, Anzac, Gallipoli

Life and Death on the Front Line.

The story of the most dangerous and exposed post on the Gallipoli peninsula.

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2003 Rodopi

For Fear of Pain

British Surgery 1790–1850.

A pioneering medical history examining surgical practice before anesthesia.

1997 Allen & Unwin

Tarakan

An Australian Tragedy.

Investigating the costly 1945 Australian operation off Borneo in the final months of WWII.

2014Helion & Company

A Welsh Calypso

A Soldier of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the West Indies, 1951–54 (edited with Tim Stevens).
2002Oxford University Press

Alamein

The Australian Story (with Mark Johnston).
1998Hurst Publishers

White Mutiny

British Military Culture in India, 1825–1875.
1991Australian War Memorial

Rosemary & Wattle

The Roll of Honour, Hall of Memory and Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier.
1986Kangaroo Press

The Remote Garrison

The British Army in Australia, 1788–1870.
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1985Military Historical Society of Australia

But Little Glory

The NSW Contingent to the Sudan, 1885 (edited).
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1984William Collins

Australians at War 1885–1972

Photographs from the collection of the Australian War Memorial (edited with Michael McKernan).
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1983Oxford University Press

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

A visual history of propaganda posters (edited).