Garth Pratten

Garth Pratten (1973) is an Australian historian in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.[1]

Garth Pratten
Born1973 (age 46–47)
AwardsCEW Bean Prize for Military History (2006)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne (BA [Hons])
Deakin University (PhD)
Thesis"Old Man": Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War (2006)
Academic work
InstitutionsAustralian National University
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Australian War Memorial
Main interestsMilitary history
Operational art

Garth Pratten has worked for the Australian Army's Training Command, as an historian at the Australian War Memorial, and taught at Deakin University, in the War Studies Department at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and at the Australian National University.[2] In 2010, Pratten deployed to Afghanistan as part of the team compiling the war diary for ISAF's Regional Command South while working for the British Ministry of Defence. Pratten undertook field work in France, Belgium, Libya, Malaya, Singapore, Turkey and Cyprus.[2]

Bibliography

Garth Pratten's publications include:

  • Pratten, G. M., 'Calling the tune': Australian and Allied Operations at Balikpapan', in P.J. Dean (ed.), Australia 1944–45: Victory in the Pacific, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, 2016.
  • Pratten, G. M., 'Unique in the history of the AIF': Operations in British Borneo', in P.J. Dean (ed.), Australia 1944–45: Victory in the Pacific, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, 2016.
  • Pratten, G. M., 'New Model Diggers: Australian Identity, Motivation, and Cohesion in Afghanistan', in Anthony King (ed.), Frontline: Combat and Cohesion in the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015.
  • Pratten, G. M., "Applying the Principles of War: Securing the Huon Peninsula" in Dean, P. J. (ed.), Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, 2013.
  • Pratten, G. M. & Farrell, B. P., Malaya, Army History Unit, Canberra, 2010.
  • Pratten, G. M., Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2009.
  • Pratten, G. M. & Harper, G. J. (eds.), Still the Same: Reflections on Active Service from Bardia to Baidoa, Army Doctrine Centre, Georges Heights, 1997.

References
  1. "Dr Garth Pratten". anu.edu.au. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  2. "Kokoda: beyond the legend – Abstracts and speakers". awm.gov.au. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
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