The book commences with a discussion of the policy issues as to whether Australia needed submarines and then the decision to buy AE1 and AE2. It then goes throu

The definitive account of the part the Royal Australian Navy played in the Second World War.

A unique and outstanding military and industrial achievement, the Collins class submarine project was also plagued with difficulties and mired in politics. Its

IT WAS A MISSION IMPOSSIBLEOn 25 April 1915 -- the day the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli -- Lieutenant Commander DacreStoker set out as captain of the Australian s

'The World Crisis' is Winston Churchill's narrative of World War I, published in several volumes. 1915 is described as a "year of ill-fortune to the cause of th