Telling Australia's War Stories

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Dr David W. Cameron and Dr Will Davies in Conversation with Dr Jan McLeod.

Rathmines Theatre

Dr David W. Cameron is the author of several Australian military histories covering World War 1 to World War 2, including six books on the history of Gallipoli. His latest military history is The Battles for Kokoda Plateau. Dr Will Davies worked in television and documentary producing films including When the War Came to Australia and 30 short films on relics in the Australian War Memorial. He now researches and writes Australia's military history, bringing to life for current and future generations the facts, stories and insights of Australian individuals. His latest book is Secret and Special.Presented by History IlluminatedBooks available for purchase and signing.Bookings essential.Gold coin donation entry.

BioDavid W. Cameron received his PhD in biological anthropology in 1995 at the Australian National University and is a former Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the Department of Anatomy &amp; Histology, University of Sydney. He has conducted fieldwork in Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He is the author of several books on Australian military history and primate evolutionary biology and has published over 60 papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals.. David Cameron's landmark, two-volume Australians on the Western Front 1918 concludes with the story of the central role Australian troops played in the final German defeat. The Battles for Kokoda Plateau:Three weeks of hell defending the gateway to the Owen Stanleys is powerful new insight into the critical first weeks of fighting to halt the Japanese advance across Papua New Guinea to Port Moresby.

Will Davies spent 37 years working as an independent producer of mainly historical documentaries and series for the ABC and SBS. Somme Mud: The war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France 1916-1919, which he edited, has become a bestseller in Australia, the UK and The Netherlands. He is the author of In The Footsteps of Private Lynch and. Beneath Hill 60 tells the true story of the Australian miners and soldiers who tunnelled under Hill 60 near Ypres and eventually broke through to create a new frontline. 
He was a member of the NSW Anzac Council, leads battlefield tours to the Western Front and has served on a number of boards. In 2018 he was awarded a Ph.D from the ANU and among other projects, is working to build a war memorial school in the French village of Pozieres. In Secret &amp; Special, historian Will Davies pushes, shoves and drags the reader through the steamy, swampy and secretive war fought by Australian special forces from 1942 until well after the official Japanese surrender in this anarchic archipelago.

Dr Jan McLeod lives in Lake Macquarie and has worked as a historian at the University of Newcastle. Her research interests include the history of military medicine, with a focus on the Australian Army in World War Two. Her first book, Shadow on the Tracks, was published in 2019. She is currently working on two more publications, one with the support of an Australian Army History Unit Research Grant.

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