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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 […]
The Last Navigator by Paul Goodwin with Gordon Goodwin – Book Review
This is a biography written as an autobiography. Paul Goodwin has written ‘in his (my father’s) voice, as it is his story’.
The Grand Deception Churchill and the Dardanelles by Tom Curran – Book Review
Tom Curran examines the role of Winston Churchill, the First Sea Lord at the time, in decision making prior to the Gallipoli landings.
