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Flagship – The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton – Book Review
HMAS Australia, and her sister ship Canberra, were County Class heavy cruisers (with 8-inch guns) built in England for the Royal Australian Navy.
No Front Line – Australia’s Special Forces at War in Afghanistan by Chris Masters – Book Review
This long book – 594 pages – deals with Australia’s war in Afghanistan from October 2001 to July 2012. During this time the author was attached to those forces and […]
A Long Way Home – One POW’s story of escape and evasion during World War II by Charles Granquist – Book Review
There are numerous soldiers’ descendants who have recounted their fathers’ incarceration in Europe or Asia during the Second World War, but it is a rare experience to read the autobiography […]
A Bit on the Side: price fixing, rationing, profiteering and black markets in Australia and Britain, 1939-1945 by Michael Tyquin – Book Review
Concerns over black marketing and rationing played a central part in the everyday life of Australian consumers and – not least – the Commonwealth government’s war effort.
Australia’s War Crimes Trials 1945-51 by Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack and Narelle Morris (Eds) – Book Review
This expensive and voluminous book is a fitting addition to our collection of texts relating to Military Law, an important segment of any comprehensive military library.
Anzacs on the Western Front – The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide (100th Anniversary Edition) by Peter Pederson with Chris Roberts – Book Review
What makes a good battlefield guide?
Pompey Elliott at War In his own words – Ross McMullin – Book Review
“You have to go along to get along” is a truth about large organisations which ‘Pompey’ Elliott understood well.
Armenia, Australia & the Great War by Vicken Babkenian & Peter Stanley – Book Review
Ottoman authorities arrested and deported 230 Armenian political, religious, educational and intellectual leaders in Constantinople 500km east to Angora (now Ankara) on the eve of the ANZAC landing on Gallipoli.
