Made by Ilda
October 30, 2024
Born of Fire and Ash
by Craig Stockings
The Official history of Australian peacekeeping operations in East Timor - Vol. 1.
A comprehensive examination of Australia’s military involvement in East Timor, Afghanistan, and Iraq from 1999 to 2009. Stockings explores the political motivations, strategic challenges, and operational complexities behind each mission, offering insights into Australia’s evolving role in global conflicts. The book critically analyzes the successes, failures, and long-term impacts of these interventions, while reflecting on how they shaped Australia’s defense policies and international standing during a tumultuous decade of global military engagement.
Professor Craig Stockings
Head of School - School of Humanities & Social Sciences
UNSW Canberra
Craig Stockings is a Professor of History at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra . His areas of academic interest concern general and Australian military history and operational analysis. He has published a history of the army cadet movement in Australia entitled The Torch and the Sword (2007), and a study of the First Libyan Campaign in North Africa 1940-41: Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac (2009). He has also edited Zombie Myths of Australian Military History (2010) and Anzac’s Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History (2012). In 2013 he co-authored an in depth study of the Greek campaign - Swastika over the Acropolis: re-interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War II; and co-edited Before the Anzac Dawn: A Military History of Australia to 1915. His most recent book, published by CUP in 2015 is an investigation of turn of the century imperial defence entitled: Britannia’s Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and Late Victorian Imperial Defence. His current research project is concerned with the INTERFET deployment to East Timor in last 1999 / early 2000.
