Volume I – The Story of Anzac: The First Phase, C.E.W. Bean
Volume II – The Story of Anzac: From 4 May 1915 to the Evacuation, C.E.W. Bean
Volume III – The Australian Imperial Force in France: 1916, C.E.W. Bean
Volume IV – The Australian Imperial Force in France: 1917, C.E.W. Bean
Volume V – The Australian Imperial Force in France: December 1917–May 1918, C.E.W. Bean
Volume VI – The Australian Imperial Force in France: May 1918 – the Armistice, C.E.W. Bean
Volume VII – The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine: 1914–1918, H.S. Gullett
Volume VIII – The Australian Flying Corps: 1914–1918, Frederic Morley Cutlack
Volume IX – The Royal Australian Navy: 1914–1918, Arthur W. Jose
Volume X – The Australians at Rabaul, Seaforth Simpson Mackenzie
Volume XI – Australia During the War, Ernest Scott
Volume XII – Photographic Record of the War
OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1914-1918 Complete 12-volume Series
£420.00
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australian involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by C.E.W. Bean, who also wrote six of the volumes, and was published between 1920 and 1942. The first seven volumes deal with the Australian Imperial Force while other volumes cover the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force at Rabaul, the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Flying Corps and the home front; the final volume is a photographic record. Unlike other official histories that have been aimed at military staff, Bean intended the Australian history to be accessible to a non-military audience. The relatively small size of the Australian forces enabled the history to be presented in great detail, giving accounts of individual actions that would not have been possible when covering a larger force. In 1946 Bean published Anzac to Amiens, a condensed version of the Official History – this was the only book to which he owned the copyright and received royalties.