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Australia’s Tasman Wars Colonial Australia and Conflict in New Zealand, 1800 – 1850 by Craig Wilcox – Book Review
This is a very detailed account of the many incidents of warfare which took place in New Zealand in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Desert Diggers – David Mitchelhill-Green – Book Review
I enjoyed reading this book as the author has managed to achieve something which is very difficult, namely, to seamlessly combine brief excerpts from a large number of letters with […]
The Battle of Passchendaele by Ian Finlayson – Book Review
This is yet another excellent publication in the Australian Army Campaigns series.
Hitler’s War in Africa 1941 – 1942 by David Mitchelhill-Green – Book Review
The Libyan Desert campaign was fought 80 years ago and may be almost forgotten.
Australia Remembers – Volumes 1 to 6 – Book Review
This is an excellent series of children’s publications catering for a mid-primary to early secondary school audience.
A Rat of Tobruk – A Digger’s Lost Images of the Siege
This is another monograph written by the son of a Second World War participant, who, like so many, did not discuss his war experiences.
Lucky Pommie Bastard by Don McNaughton – Book Review
Forced out of France, Britain faced the Battle of Britain in 1940 followed by the bombing of London and its industrial cities by the Luftwaffe.
Radar Gunner by Dick Dakeyne, DFC – Book Review
Wishing to enlist in his father’s First World War battalion, Dakeyne was told he could not serve overseas until he was 19 years old; no such restriction applied to the […]
