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Australia Remembers 2: Customs and Traditions of the Australian Defence Force
29 March 2021As our nation prepares to honour those who have served this country in both war and peace on ANZAC Day 2021, once again we will see and hold commemorations that while confronting in their origins…
BOOK REVIEW: The Korean Kid: A Young Australian pilot’s baptism of fire in the jet fighter age
10 March 2021Reviewed by Neville Taylor RUSI VIC Born in 1930, James Kitchenside grew up in a Depression-ridden Marrickville, surviving in hand-me-downs in an overcrowded house a stone’s throw from Mascot Aerodrome. As he had little to…
BOOK REVIEW: Atomic Salvation: How the A-Bomb attacks saved the lives of 32 million people
10 March 2021Reviewed by Robert Ellis - RUSI VIC Dr Lewis has discussed two major issues in this, his 15th book of military and other history. He addresses the justification of the decision by America’s President Truman…
Books of Interest – Australian Defence Magazine by Peter Masters
26 February 2021Review of the Counting Series by Grace Nolan & Nancy Bevington (Illustrator) by Barbara Braxton at The Bottomshelf
25 February 202110 Naughty Numbats 9781922265616 10 Bush Babies 9781922265623 10 Lively Lorikeets 9781922265630 Grace Nolan Nancy Bevington Big Sky, 2021 32pp., pbk., RRP $A14.9 Learning to count, add and subtract is one of the key reasons…
Penny Harris (text) and Winnie Zhou (illustrator), Movie Mayhem – A Story About Saying Sorry, Big Sky Publishing Australia. September 2020, 32 pp., RRP $16.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781922265777
25 February 2021Tao Tiger likes peace and quiet so, as he is settling into a relaxing movie night at home, he is less than impressed with the unexpected arrival of his noisy friends. Unfortunately, Tao does not…
RUSI – VIC Newsletter December 2020 – Review “William Holmes”
23 December 2020Atomic Salvation Book Review by Kevin Rickard
14 December 2020
Blog article by Travis Winks – Author of Shattered
23 September 2020How many times have you wished something wasn’t true? I can think of plenty of examples –Coronavirus, last summer’s catastrophic bushfires, 9-11 – the list is endless, but there is one that selfishly tops the…
#BookReview: Happiness is a Cloud by Robert Vescio and Nancy Bevington by Just Write For Kids
18 August 2020Blurb: Look up to the clouds and what do you see?On a day out at the beach Harry discovers that feelings are just like the clouds… they change shape and roll on by.And even on…
Clash of the Gods of War: Australian Artillery and the Firepower Lessons of the Great War
18 August 2020William Westerman and Nicholas Floyd, (eds.). Big Sky Publishing. 2020. $34.99 When Stalin described artillery as the ‘god of war’ he knew what he was talking about. More than anything else, artillery firepower shaped the…