Under The Same Moon – Book review
Peter Mitchell’s book Under The Same Moon is a beautifully written social history.
80 years on – the boy looks back at his airman father
The signing of the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945 aboard the battleship USS Missouri marked the formal end of the Pacific War.
Lost Women of Rabaul By: Roderick Miller – Book Review
This is the story of huge wartime injustice against 17 Australian Nurses, 1 civilian ex-pat, and a Female US citizen, at the hands of Japanese captors during the Second World […]
Brave Victorians fight in Second Boer War
Great Britain once boasted that the sun never sets on the British Empire, in it’s hey day from the 18th to the 20th centuries it is estimated that Great Britain […]
RESOLUTE- The Australian Air War in Burma 1942 – 1945 by Andrew Kilsby & Daryl Moran – Book Review
For some time, the Burma Campaign was overlooked, and largely forgotten, as was the contribution of the participating RAAF aircrew.
Australia’s Coastal War by Tom Lewis – Book Review by Peter Williams
New book describes all WWII enemy action around Australia.
Untold stories of Australians in Operation Market Garden (17-25 September 1944)
Historian Mat McLachlan shares Untold stories of Australians in Operation Market Garden (17-25 September 1944). And what to see today visiting the battlefields of Operation Market Garden
The Submarine Pens of Bordeaux
I was fortunate recently to be in Bordeaux, France, and to visit one of the few remaining WWII submarine pens in the world.
