Campaign Series - The Battle of Fromelles
The Battle of Fromelles - until recently largely forgotten in the accounts of Australia's experiences in World War One - remains the single bloodiest day i...
Campaign Series - The Western Desert
While the North African campaign has been studied in detail over the years, much of this study has been dedicated to the battles between the British 8th Ar...
Campaign Series - The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918
Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 charts an extraordinary journey from the trenches facing Mont St Quentin on 31 August 1918 throug...
Crawl to Freedom: Australian POW Escapes of World War One
During World War One over 4000 Australian servicemen were taken prisoner. Yet the prisoner of war experiences of the Anzacs are ...
Sanananda: A Bastard of a Place
The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942-43
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With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along...
Wold War Bloody Timor
My name is Peter O’Hanlon, but everyone in the military, from the lowest digger to the highest officer, has always called me ‘Irish’. You won’t see me, or the service men a...
Chasing Bandits in the Badlands: Australian Soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993
In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve unde...
Desert Diggers: Writings From a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942
Desert Diggers: Writings from a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942 draws upon hundreds of soldier...
Australia's Lost Heroes: ANZACS in the Russian Civil War 1919
This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia’s Lost Heroes tells the astonishi...
In The Fight: Australians and the War in Burma 1942 - 1945
If you didn’t know that Australians were involved in the longest campaign of WWII, in Burma, in what was called ‘a forgotten war’, this...
Changing Altitudes: Stories of Australian Air Force Women
 Australian Air Campaign Series
In the early years of the Second World War, Australian women began lobbying to contribute to the nation’...
Find Fix Finish
It was Australia's longest war, and also our most secretive.
In the craggy mountains, green belts and digital battlefields of Afghanistan, concepts of heroism and decency started to...
