The Changi Book – Lachlan Grant (ed) – Book Review
Research staff at the Australian War Memorial recently found a file marked ‘8 Div. Papers’.
Research staff at the Australian War Memorial recently found a file marked ‘8 Div. Papers’.
On 14 April 2016 Dr Mark Johnston was MHHV’s monthly Military History Speaker.
Of an estimated 2.3 million prisoners who entered the hell of the Nazi concentration camps, over 1.7 million were killed, whether gassed or worked to their skeletal ends. Many went […]
This is the third and final volume of works edited by Peter Dean concerned with the Australian contribution to the war in the South-West Pacific.
Operations.
Plans, Command Problems and Controversy.
Largely overlooked for the more dramatic battles of 1941 (Greece, Crete, Syria, Tobruk) and 1942 (El Alamein, Papua New Guinea) the battles in New Guinea in 1943 are a portrait […]
Born and educated in Melbourne, Godfrey Blunden was a journalist working for the Sydney Daily Telegraph when in 1940, at the age of 34, he was sent to Europe to […]