Peter Stanley
Prof. Peter Stanley is one of Australia’s most distinguished military historians. Formerly the Principal Historian of the Australian War Memorial (Australia’s national military museum), where he worked from 1980 to 2007, he was Research Professor at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, from 2013 to 2023, where he is now Hon. Prof.. Peter is the author of over 45 books, most in Australian military history, including Tarakan: an Australian Tragedy (1997), Quinn’s Post, Anzac, Gallipoli (2005), Men of Mont St Quentin (2009) Invading Australia (2008) and Bad Characters (2010), which jointly won the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History in 2011. He has also written about the history of surgery (For Fear of Pain, 2003), battlefield research (A Stout Pair of Boots, 2008) and bushfires (Black Saturday at Steels Creek, 2013). On joining UNSW he was able to focus on the military history of British India (the subject of his 1993 PhD, published as White Mutiny, 1998), including Die in Battle, Do not Despair: the Indians on Gallipoli (published by Helion in 2015), ‘Terriers’ in India: British Territorials in India, 1914-19 (also with Helion, 2019) and Hul! Hul!: the Suppression of the Santa Rebellion, 1855 (2022). Peter is a frequent contributor to the media on military history.
Books
- John Company's Armies : The Military Forces of British India 1824-57 Author
- Terriers In India : British Territorials 1914-19 Author
- Die in Battle Do Not Despair : The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 Author