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Valiant for Truth

Mr Peter Brune, Neil McDonald

Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, and published The Struggle for Europe , his classic account of the Normandy invasion and its aftermath. He was tragically killed in the crash of the BOAC Comet over Greece in 1954, returning from Australia where he had been covering the Royal Tour.

Tom Frame, Mr Albert Palazzo

No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War Army personnel would be deployed to Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. In a constructive critique of the modern Australian Army, 'On Ops'

Not Just For this Life

Edited by Wendy Guest, Gary Gray

Not Just For This Life Not Just For This Life also includes a foreword by Graham Freudenberg and short introductions by Laurie Oakes, Anita Heiss, Geraldine Doogue, Don Watson, Patricia Hewitt, Nick Whitlam and Tim Soutphommasane where they tell their stories of the period following Gough's death and their experiences with Gough.

The Worst Woman in Sydney

Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?

Armenia, Australia & the Great War

Peter Stanley, Vicken Babkenian

Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide.

Unnecessary Wars

'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.'

Who Bombed the Hilton?

I unpick and put in chronological order thousands of pieces of paper — lay out the facts as they arrived the first time, unadorned, uninterpreted, flying in from dozens of sources and every corner of the world.

Edited by Tom Frame

This collection of essays from ex-soldiers, military historians, chaplains and psychologists examines the unseen wounds sustained by Australians deployed to armed conflict, peacekeeping missions, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Australian Women War Reporters

Jeannine Baker

Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm?

Key Concepts in Military Ethics

Edited by Dr Deane-Peter Baker

Can war be morally justified? What is the philosophy behind armed conflict? How do you conduct an ethical war? And what guides military action as the nature of conflict changes over time?

What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy?

Edited by Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi

Victoria at War

Michael McKernan

During the First World War, in Melbourne and communities throughout Victoria, schoolchildren knitted socks for the troops serving in Gallipoli, the Middle East and on the Western Front. Their families set up Red Cross branches to support the 91,000 Victorian servicemen and women overseas.

Anne Henderson

In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little.

Kokoda Air Strikes

Anthony Cooper

The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played – or failed to play – in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea.

Lost Boys of Anzac

Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?

Zombie Myths of Australian Military History

Edited by Craig Stockings

What's wrong with ANZAC?

What's wrong with ANZAC?

Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds, Joy Damousi, Mark Mckenna

Sorry, lads, but the order is to go

David W. Cameron

Bean's Official History Volume II (1924) to describe in detail a failed offensive in which bodies were shattered and lives senselessly lost.