Taking the Lead The Royal Australian Air Force 1972 – 1996 by Mark Lax Newport – Book Review
This is the third volume in a series of official histories of the RAAF.
The Long Search for Peace Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947–2006 [The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Vol 1 by Peter Londey, Rhys Crawley and David Horner – Book Review
Despite being Volume 1 in this series, the other five volumes have preceded this one.
Scorched Earth – Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction by Tammy Pemper – Book Review
Pemper has concentrated on the nineteen days in 1999 that Peter Watt was with the UN Peacekeeping Force in East Timor.
Reflections on INTERFET Symposium live stream
To mark the 20th anniversary of INTERFET, the Australian War Memorial convened a special half-day symposium to reflect on and discuss Australia’s contribution in 1999 to establishing the security and stability that helped establish Timor-Leste as a free and independent nation. You can stream this symposium free of charge.
The Limits of Peacekeeping Australian Missions in Africa and the Americas, 1992–2005 [Official History of Australian Peacekeeping – Vol 4] by Jean Bou, Bob Breen et al (Eds)
With the end of the Cold War there came change in attitudes towards peacekeeping.
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.
In their time of need: Australian overseas emergency relief operations 1918 – 2006 by Steven Bullard – Book Review
In Their Time of Need documents this century-long commitment, focusing on the overseas deployment of defence and other personnel and equipment for broadly humanitarian goals, generally in response to a call for assistance after a natural disaster or other non-conflict related emergency.
Dying for the Truth – The Concise History of Frontline War Reporting by Paul Moorcraft – Book Review
Paul Moorcroft is a writer with four decades of experience in the subject matter covered in Dying for the Truth.
