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Accommodating the King's Hard Bargain: Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914 - 1947 Hardcover – February 7, 2018

by Graham Wilson (Author)
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Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating The King’s Hard Bargain tells the gritty story of military detention and punishment dating from colonial times with a focus on the system rather than the individual soldier.

World War I was Australia’s first experience of a mass army and the detention experience was complex, encompassing short and long-term detention, from punishment in the field to incarceration in British and Australian military detention facilities. The World War II experience was similarly complex, with detention facilities in England, Palestine and Malaya, mainland Australia and New Guinea. Eventually the management of army detention would become the purview of an independent, specialist service. With the end of the war, the army reconsidered detention and, based on lessons learned, established a single ‘corrective establishment,' its emphasis on rehabilitation.

As Accommodating The King’s Hard Bargain graphically illustrates, the road from colonial experience to today’s triservice corrective establishment was long and rocky. Armies are powerful instruments, but also fragile entities, their capability resting on discipline. It is in pursuit of this war-winning intangible that detention facilities are considered necessary — a necessity that continues in the modern army.
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    496 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Big Sky Publishing
  4. Publication date
    February 7, 2018
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1925275833
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1925275834
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Graham Wilson served 26 years in the Australian Regular Army, retiring in 1996 as a Warrant Officer Intelligence Analyst. Following five years as a civilian intelligence officer in the Department of Defence, he transferred to the Defence Department’s Directorate of Honours and Awards where he worked for 10 years in the support and policy areas; the latter as Staff Officer Historical Research. Graham retired from the Public Service in February 2011 and now works as a historian.

Graham is active in a number of historical and militaria societies and is a prolific author of historical articles; he has been published in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA and has received a number of awards for military history writing.. Graham lives in Canberra with his wife Sharon, a retired Chief Petty Officer of the Royal Australian Navy, and their Bichoodle “Ralph”. Their favourite pastime is spoiling their grandchildren.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Big Sky Publishing (February 7, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1925275833
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1925275834
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.56 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
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