“War has been one of the defining forces in Australian history … Participation in war, whether actively in the armed forces or on the home front, or in opposition to a particular war, has shaped the lives of successive generations of Australians in the twentieth century. Today … questions relating to defence do not usually seize the attention of the media, but the Department of Defence remains one of the largest single consumers of the annual federal budget, and Anzac Day continues to hold a special place in the Australian calendar.”
These words introduced the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History in 1995.

Light edge-wear to jacket and light shelf-rubbing to bottom. xxi, 692 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm. First Edition. #0621 Australia. Army — History.  |  Australia — History, Military — Encyclopedias.  |  Australia — Armed Forces — Biography.