Peter Alan Stanley was born on 28 October 1956 and is an Australian historian and research professor at the University of New South Wales in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society.
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Peter Stanley has written eight books about Australia and the Great War since 2005, and was a joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011.
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The family emigrated to Australia in 1966 and settled in the South Australian city of Whyalla, where Peter Stanley was educated at the local high school.
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Peter Stanley abandoned teaching to assume a position at the Australian War Memorial in 1980, and returned to ANU to complete a Bachelor of Letters and a Doctor of Philosophy.
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Peter Stanley has two daughters from a previous marriage to Mary-Ann Capel.
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Peter Stanley has published over thirty books, mainly in Australian military history, with a strong bent towards social history.
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Peter Stanley has written on the military history of British India, and has published a book on British surgery in the final decades of surgery before the introduction of anaesthesia, and on the effects of bushfire on an Australian community.
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Peter Stanley's writing expresses his concern to integrate operational and social approaches within military history and relates in one way or another to the theme of human experience in extreme situations.
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Peter Stanley has been a major participant in several public debates over history.
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Peter Stanley strongly contested the idea that there was a "Battle for Australia" in 1942, disagreeing opinions that events in Darwin in 1942 during the Second World War represented Japan's intention to invade Australia.
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Peter Stanley published Lost Boys of Anzac with NewSouth in 2014, and Die in battle: Do not Despair: Indians on Gallipoli, 1915 with Helion in 2015.
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Peter Stanley edited A Welch Calypso, Tom Stevens's memoir of his time in the West Indies in the early 1950s, for Helion.
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In 2001, Peter Stanley criticised the ABC Television mini-series Changi, claiming that the program was an in-accurate and misleading portrayal of the Second World War POW camp in Singapore.