Konfrontasi Diggers 1963-66: The activities of 3RAR during the Indonesian Confrontation
This article is the text of a lecture delivered to the Society’s meeting on 7 December 2019.
South Pacific Air War – Volumes 1 to 3 by Michael Claringbould & Peter Ingman – Book Review
This trilogy has been written by two highly acclaimed authors who have virtually ‘lived and breathed’ the history of aviation in the South West Pacific.
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.
An Interesting Point – A History of Military Aviation at Point Cook by Steve Campbell-Wright – Book Review
This well-produced, revised and retitled book tells the story of the oldest continuously operating military airfield in the world.
Vietnam: Our Stories by Kevin Childs and Ken Foster – Book Review
This is a collection of stories of the war by its Australian participants assembled under the banner of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia.
Chastise – The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings – Book Review
Everyone with a passing interest in World War 2 is familiar in a general sense with the RAF 617 Sqn attack on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany […]
The future of war: a history by Laurence Freedman – Book Review
The Future of War is a history of predictions about the character of war and the reduced likelihood of war.
