Australian Brass: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson

by Jeffrey Grey

• ISBN13: 9780521122511
• ISBN10: 0521122511
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Illustrations and maps

Abbreviations

Author's note

Introduction

Foundations: 1894-1915

A good war: 1916-1919

Between wars: 1919-1940

'His crowded hour': 1940-1941

'A turbulent subordinate': 1942-1946

The occupation of Japan: 1945-1946

The occupation of Japan: 1946-1947

The occupation of Japan: 1948-1950

Robertson, BCOF and the Korean War: 1950-1951

The final years: 1952-1960

'Red Robbie': a summation

Bibliographic essay

Notes

Index

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