Long Tan: The Start of a Lifelong Battle by Harry Smith – Book Review
Long Tan, August 1966, was chosen as the seminal Australian Vietnam battle by the Vietnam Veterans’ Association for a very good reason.
The Unravelling: high hopes and missed opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky – Book Review
I first encountered Emma Sky when briefing General Odierno in late 2008. She was not introduced and sat unobtrusively beside the Commanding General.
The Ottoman defence against the ANZAC landing: 25 April 1915 by Mesut Uyar – Book Review
The Ottoman Defence against the Anzac Landing: 25 April 1915 places us one step closer towards better understanding the events of this fateful day.
Gallipoli by Jenny Macleod – Book Review
Bookshops have seen no shortage of new products with the word ‘Gallipoli’ in their titles over the past few months, so my challenge here is to explain what makes Gallipoli […]
East Timor intervention: a retrospective on INTERFET – Book Review
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Maestro John Monash: Australia’s greatest citizen general by Tim Fischer – Book Review
Maestro John Monash is not so much a biography or military history book as a long essay making the argument to posthumously promote Sir John Monash to the rank of […]
The Grand Deception Churchill and the Dardanelles by Tom Curran – Book Review
It will come as no surprise that this book lays responsibility for the Dardanelles campaign of 1915 at Winston Churchill’s feet.
Bearing Witness: the remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia’s greatest war correspondent by Peter Rees
Book Review – Bearing Witness is a remarkably insightful and informative biography of C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean – arguably Australia’s most famous war correspondent and war historian.
