About this title: This book presents the history of the Australian navy, focusing on the contribution of the RAN in peace and war to Australia's development and the potential it has to continue this into the future. Australia has often been described as a nation shaped by war. From an early age, every Australian is taught the significance of Gallipoli and the Anzac ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781741142006ISBN:1741142008
Description: 1st Ed. XXVI, 438 PP with 4 maps, 4 tables and 45 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. New. 20.8 x 14. ISBN 1741142008. Collection of 18 essays: The Royal Navy in the Pacific: sea power and Imperial endeavour by Geoffrey Till...The search for a strategic sea-base and the founding of Australia, by Tom Frame...The long triangulation: naval hydrography and the Great Barrier Reef, by Colin Jones... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781741147438ISBN:1741147433
Description: As New in As New jacket. 438 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. This examines the extent of the Navy's contribution to our national development and shows how the navy has played a vital role in defining our independant national identity. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Sydney
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781741147438ISBN:1741147433
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Australiana. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Australiana Military ISBN: 1741147433 Inventory No: 007259. read more
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