| Australian Brass Contributor(s): Grey, Jeffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521401577 ISBN-13: 9780521401579 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $94.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Australia & New Zealand - General - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 91034244 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.23 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colorful and controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two world wars, as well as a lengthy period in both Japan and Korea between 1946 and 1951. Australian Brass not only charts the life and career of "Red Robbie," it uses his career as a vehicle to trace the development of the Australian regular army and the professional officer corps. It is also the first account of the occupation of Japan from a senior officer's perspective, as Robertson was Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after the Second World War. This episode is set in the context of the continuing relationship between Britain and the Pacific dominions. |
