William Westerman

About The Author

William Westerman completed his PhD at UNSW Canberra. His thesis, Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914-1918, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. He has worked at Monash University and as an ANU Teaching Fellow at the Australian Command and Staff College, Canberra. He is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at UNSW Canberra and a researcher for the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan at the Australian War Memorial.

Books by William Westerman

Clash of the Gods of War

Australian Artillery and the Firepower Lessons of the Great War

By William Westerman and Nicholas Floyd
The Great War confronted Australia’s fledgling field and garrison artillery forces with a seemingly insurmountable challenge: to rapidly raise, prepare, deploy and engage in history’s most lethal war to date. By 1915, the Australian artillery entered into a bloody contest of learning and adaptati...
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