Desert Diggers – David Mitchelhill-Green – Book Review
I enjoyed reading this book as the author has managed to achieve something which is very difficult, namely, to seamlessly combine brief excerpts from a large number of letters with […]
Battlefield Trekking Guide to Timor Leste – By Jim Truscott
World War Two, the Independence War and United Nations Operations.
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.
How they fought: Indigenous tactics and weaponry of Australia’s Frontier Wars – Book Review
This is an excellent and much needed book.
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. […]
Defenders of the Queen: Imperial and Colonial Defence 1850 – 1901
In this conference, historians and experts on the era presented on both the strategic and the tactical.
The confused identity of the Japanese submarine aircraft that overflew Sydney
In mid-1942 Sydney Harbour was attacked by a midget submarine raid.
1943 – Australia and the Pacific War; The Tide Turns
The fourth year of World War 2 saw the German Army suffer its first major defeat at Stalingrad, and an Allied victory in North Africa enabled an invasion of Italy […]
