From Vietnam Nasho to Catching School Crooks by Colin O’Neill – Book Review
Hot off the presses is this honest account of life growing up through some of the most turbulent years of the 20th century.
Life So Full of Promise: further biographies of Australia’s lost generation. Speaker: Ross McMullin
Life So Full of Promise, Ross McMullin’s second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, features a collection of interwoven family stories about forgotten Australians who had radiant […]
Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber – Book Review
This work is an exhaustive and authoritative history of signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations and applications within the Australian context and environment, both strategically and operationally.
In The Fight – Australia and the Burma Campaign – Book Review
On 4 November this Big Sky Publishing in Australia is publishing In The Fight, a new book examining the various connections between Australia and the Burma Campaign between 1942 and […]
Admiral VAT Smith – The extraordinary life of the father of Australia’s Fleet Air Arm – Book Review
This new publication from Avonmore Books may well be the definitive biography of a very interesting member of the Royal Australian Navy.
Book Review – Dive! Australian Submariners at War by Mike Carlton
If you have read any of Mike Carlton’s other books on Australian Naval history then this review will be a very short and to the point.
The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: How sailors lived, fought and died in Australia’s greatest naval disaster – Book Review
Before the discovery of the wreckage of HMAS Sydney (II) was found off Carnarvon in WA in 2008 many books were written about the sinking of the RAN’s light cruiser.
Lethality in Combat: A Study of the True Nature of Battle by Tom Lewis – Book Review
During a Memorial Day address in 1884, the American Civil War veteran Oliver Wendell Holmes commented that he and his fellow war veterans had ‘shared the incommunicable experience of war. […]
