Heroes of Hamel by Stephen Dando-Collins – Book Review
This book is both fascinating and peculiar.
The guns of August 1918: the Allied counter-offensive in the Somme Sector
The German Spring Offensive, which began with Operation Michael in March 1918, had culminated by the Second Battle of the Marne in mid-July 1918.
Was General Sir Stanley Maude Poisoned?
Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley ‘Joe’ Maude was one of the First World War’s most successful fighting Generals.
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.
Masters of War: The AIF in France 1918
At the beginning of 1918, three years of fighting and destruction had failed to produce any clear result on the Western Front.
Command of the Australian Imperial Force and the Australian Corps during the First World War
When originally formed in 1914 the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was commanded by Major-General William Bridges, who also commanded the 1st Division.
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.
