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Book Review – Long Tan
14 September 2015Long Tan, August 1966, was chosen as the seminal Australian Vietnam battle by the Vietnam Veterans' Association for a very good reason. It was a David and Goliath fight of “68 Aussie Nashos and near…
A Carefree War
06 September 2015Ann Howard - A Carefree War, The Hidden History of Australian WWII Child Evacuees Published by Pittwater's Big Sky Publishing, with a Foreword by Les Murray, one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures, and written…
Book Review – The Grand Deception
01 September 2015By the end of 1914 Russia had already suffered one and a half million casualties, and called on Britain to present 'a show of force in the Dardanelles' to assure Germany that Russia was not…
Long Tan
18 August 2015"18th August is the anniversary of the battle of Long Tan. It is also Vietnam Veterans Day. In 1966, near the main Australian base in Vietnam, 108 men of Delta Company of the 6th Battalion…
Captain Starlight features in the Mildura Weekly
18 August 2015MID-1800s Pooncarie, Menindee and Bourke were some of the last places in Australia you might look for a bushranger, but one daring bloke who did visit these small Darling River ports had one of the…
“Long Tan officers given honours at soldiers’ expense, claims former commander”
18 August 2015Interview ABC News with Harry Smith by Bruce Atkinson
2015 Winner Australian Christian Book of the Year
18 August 2015The letters and journals of both chaplains and soldiers animate this account of the work of chaplains in every theatre of war involving Australian troops. While the role of the chaplain has changed over time,…
The Myths and the medals – Long Tan
17 August 2015SYDNEY: A Vietnam War hero has accused senior army officers of fabricating citations with "mythical statements" after the battle of Long Tan so they could receive awards while denying them to the troops who fought…
Whatever Remains
25 May 2015The third most-used Sherlock Holmes quote, from Chapter 6 of The Sign of the Four (1890), provides the title for this personal saga of the author to establish just who and what her parents really…
Anzac Sons – Childrens Version
21 May 2015Alison Marlow Paterson is a teacher-librarian and the granddaughter of Alan Marlow, one of the two Marlow sons who returned from the Western Front in July and November of 1919. Written for children in the…
Combat Colonels
19 May 2015David Holloway's father, over half a century ago, when asked by David who his colonel had been during the War, said 'we were much too busy to worry about that sort of thing'. Basing his…
Sudan 1885
19 May 2015Michael Tyquin is a consulting historian who works in Canberra. This is Tyquin's eighth book in the areas of Australian social, medical and military history in his 20 years of publication.A serving Australian Army Reserve…