Magnificent’: Australians at Alamein 1942
On 14 April 2016 Dr Mark Johnston was MHHV’s monthly Military History Speaker.
KL: a history of the Nazi concentration camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann – Book Review
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 […]
Australia 1944-45: Victory in the Pacific by Peter Dean – Book review
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.
A Wasted Effort? – The RAAF and the Battle for Tarakan – Part 2
Operations.
A Wasted Effort? – The RAAF and the Battle for Tarakan – Part 1
Plans, Command Problems and Controversy.
Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea by Peter J. Dean (ed) – Book Review
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 […]
Godfrey Blunden – Australian War Correspondent
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 […]
US Marines in Melbourne
The close bonds of friendship and cooperation between the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the Australian Army were forged in the Pacific campaigns of World War 2 and continue […]
