Book review – In All Respects Ready: Australia’s Navy in World War One
In All Respects Ready: Australia’s Navy in World War One by David Stevens.
Book Review – The Good International Citizen
The Good International Citizen: Australian Peacekeeping in Asia, Africa and Europe, 1991-1993. Volume 3 of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. by David Horner and […]
Book Review – Remembrance: 100 years, 100 memorials, 100 Australian stories
by Geoff Hocking with Christopher Atkins and Julie Millowick
The First Fateful Shot: Port Phillip Bay, August 1914
Shortly after midday the gunners at Fort Nepean lined up the German merchant steamer – the SS Pfalz – as it bolted towards the heads and fired the first shot […]
Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray
Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray was born at Glen Huntly, VIC on 26 December 1921 and was educated at Hampton High School, Melbourne.
Under new management: the Royal Australian Navy and the removal of Germany from the Pacific, 1914-15 by Ian Pfennigwerth
At the outbreak of WWI in August 1914, the Australian Fleet and the Australian Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) were tasked to remove the German presence from the Pacific.
The Mystery of AE1: Australia’s Lost Submarine and Crew by Kathryn Spurling
The loss of AE1 with her entire complement of 3 officers and 32 sailors was the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) first major tragedy and it marred an otherwise successful operation […]
Charles Bean’s Gallipoli Illustrated Edited by Philip Bradley
Philip Bradley has done two useful things in this book; he has taken extracts from Charles Bean’s diary from Gallipoli and combined it with dozens of never before seen photographs […]
