The 22 volumes were published by the Australian War Memorial between 1952 and 1977, with most books being completed and released in the 1950s and early 1960s. The publishing company Collins began a project to print the series with new introductions by modern scholars in the 1980s after the University of Queensland Press reprinted the "Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918". The project was terminated after the first three volumes in the Army series and both volumes in the Navy series were reprinted.