The Future of War: A History by Laurence Freedman – Book Review
The Future of War is a history of predictions about the character of war and the reduced likelihood of war.
Soldiers and civilization: how the profession of arms thought and fought the modern world into existence by Reed Robert Bonadonna – Book Review
Soldiers and Civilization examines the history of the military profession in the Western World from the ancient Greeks to the present day.
Why we fight by Mike Martin – Book Review
Why We Fight explores the question: “Why do human beings fight?”
Young Hitler: the making of the Führer by Paul Ham – Book Review
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the “most stupendous experience of my life”.
Bradman & Monash, great Australians, parallel lives
Don Bradman could cut you with his tongue as sharply as he could flash a ball to the boundary with his bat.
Savage continent: Europe in the aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe – Book Review
Savage Continent is a deeply harrowing account of Europe as a continent reeling from the impacts and consequences of World War II.
Training for War – The History of Headquarters 1st Division 1914-2014 by Michael Tyquin – Book Review
Most Australian Army unit histories are based on units: infantry battalion, artillery regiments, engineer squadrons and the like.
War Beyond Words – Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present by Jay Winter – Book Review
Jay Winter is Charles J Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.
