Pratten has worked for the Australian Army's Training Command, as a 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
Pratten's publications include:
Pratten, G. M. (2016). "'Calling the tune': Australian and Allied Operations at Balikpapan". In Dean, P. J. (ed.). Australia 1944–45: Victory in the Pacific. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN9781107083462.
Pratten, G. M. (2016). "'Unique in the history of the AIF': Operations in British Borneo". In Dean, P. J. (ed.). Australia 1944–45: Victory in the Pacific. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN9781107083462.
Pratten, G. M. (2015). "New Model Diggers: Australian Identity, Motivation, and Cohesion in Afghanistan". In King, Anthony (ed.). Frontline: Combat and Cohesion in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780198719663.
Pratten, G. M. (2013). "Applying the Principles of War: Securing the Huon Peninsula". In Dean, P. J. (ed.). Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN9781107445239.
Pratten, G. M.; Farrell, B. P. (2009). Malaya. Canberra: Army History Unit. ISBN9780980567441.
Pratten, G. M. (2009). Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN9780521763455.
Pratten, G. M.; Harper, G. J., eds. (1997). Still the Same: Reflections on Active Service from Bardia to Baidoa. Georges Heights: Army Doctrine Centre. ISBN9780642244352.
