The August Offensive
After three long months of stalemate on the Gallipoli peninsula thousands had died in fighting and many more had been wounded.
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 […]
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.
INTERFET: Reflections on the 1999 East Timor Crisis
Following the vote in favour of self-determination in 1999 chaos engulfed East Timor. Dozens of buildings burned, thousands of people were displaced from their homes and some were injured or […]
Book Review – Remembrance: 100 years, 100 memorials, 100 Australian stories
by Geoff Hocking with Christopher Atkins and Julie Millowick
The First Fateful Shot: Port Phillip Bay, August 1914
Shortly after midday the gunners at Fort Nepean lined up the German merchant steamer – the SS Pfalz – as it bolted towards the heads and fired the first shot […]
Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray
Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray was born at Glen Huntly, VIC on 26 December 1921 and was educated at Hampton High School, Melbourne.
Book Review – Empires of the dead: How one man’s vision led to the creation of WWI’s war graves by David Crane.
No tour of the battlefields of the two World Wars can omit a visit to at least one Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery.
