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  • Chasing Bandits in the Badlands

    Australian Soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993

    by Bob Breen ...
    In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve under American command in a violent, impoverished, starving society. Most males over the age of twelve either carried or had access to a gun, and most Somali men had been fighting a vicious civil war for years.Australian soldiers and their teams had to gain control of the streets of Baidoa and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Australian Force Somalia

    1992-1993

    by Bob Breen ...
    In 1992, civil war, drought and economic collapse left four million Somalis destitute, displaced and starving. Twenty-six nations sent their young men and women to make sure that food reached those who needed it. Australia joined this international ‘coalition of the willing’ with the Australian Force Somalia comprised of a 1,000-strong battalion group based on 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian ... Read more

    $7.21 USD

  • First and Foremost

    A Concise Illustrated History of 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, 1945 - 2018

    by Bob Breen ...
    This history has been published to mark 70 years of service as well as the 50th Anniversary of the battle of Coral/Balmoral in Vietnam in 1968, the 25th Anniversary of service in Somalia in 1993 and the 10th anniversary of service in Afghanistan in 2008/09. It covers only the ‘wave tops’ of 70 years of history and mentions only a few individuals, mostly commanding officers or contingent commanders ... Read more

    $6.04 USD

  • The Good Neighbour: Volume 5, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations

    Australian Peace Support Operations in the Pacific Islands 1980–2006

    by Bob Breen ...
    The Good Neighbour explores the Australian government's efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from 1980 to 2006. It tells the story of the deployment of Australian diplomatic, military and policing resources at a time when neighbouring governments were under pressure from political violence and civil unrest. The main focus of this volume is Australian peacemaking and peacekeeping in ... Read more

    $104.19 USD

  • The Limits of Peacekeeping: Volume 4, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations

    Australian Missions in Africa and the Americas, 1992–2005

    Edited by Jean Bou, Bob Breen, David Horner, Garth Pratten, Miesje de Vogel ...
    The Limits of Peacekeeping highlights the Australian government's peacekeeping efforts in Africa and the Americas from 1992 to 2005. Changing world power structures and increased international cooperation saw a boom in Australia's peacekeeping operations between 1991 and 1995. The initial optimism of this period proved to be misplaced, as the limits of the United Nations and the international ... Read more

    $139.39 USD

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    Chasing Bandits in the Badlands

    by Bob Breen ...
    Narrated by John Stretton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 22 min

    In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve under American command in a violent, impoverished, starving society. Most males over the age of twelve either carried or had access to a gun, and most Somali men had been fighting a vicious civil war for years.Australian soldiers and their teams had to gain control of the streets of Baidoa and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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