Bravo Zulu – Honours and Awards to Australian People Volume 1, 1900 – 1974 by Ian Pfennigwerth – Book Review
Bravo Zulu is NATO shorthand for ‘well done’.
The Battle of Fromelles – an ANZAC Tragedy by Peter O’Reilly – Book review
Our RUSI library has a superb collection of items relating to the Battle of Fromelles. Recent events have brought it into prominence – many Australians are now well aware that […]
Passchendaele: requiem for doomed youth by Paul Ham – Book Review
Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front: “pointless butchery that, even by the standards of the Great War entered the realm of the infernal and monumentally […]
What’s In A Number? The Personal Numbering System of the Australian Army by 2151240
The first thing a soldier generally learns, on the very first day of enlistment, is his or her personal number.
A Greater Sum of Sorrow – The Battles of Bullecourt by David Coombes – Book Review
Several years ago, if you wanted the detailed story of any of Australia’s major battles on the Western Front in the First World War, the Official History was your only […]
Wings of Empire – The forgotten wars of the Royal Air Force, 1919-1939 by Barrie Renfrew – Book Review
Renfrew, a noted military historian and war reporter, has written a masterly history of a sparsely recorded period of the Royal Air Force between the First and Second World Wars.
Somme Impressions
Arriving in Amiens on a late Sunday afternoon is an unexpected experience.
The Fair Dinkums by Glenn McFarlane – Book Review
The ‘Fair Dinkums’ were those who, once the initial rush to enlist was over, and the scale of casualties at Gallipoli had become apparent, joined the army from a considered […]
