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Books & arts Churchill on — and sometimes behind — the screen Brian McFarlane 8 October 2021 Lockdown has been a chance to compare on-screen treatments of the former British PM, and a documentary about his friendship with director Alexander Korda International From Korea to Kabul, and beyond Andy Butfoy 23 August 2021 If the past is any guide, failure in Afghanistan won’t end Washington’s military activism International Lost in translation Emma Shortis 18 August 2021 Will the chaotic withdrawal from another war zone finally change how the United States and Australia deal with conflict? International Mission unaccomplished Mark Baker 18 August 2021 Another round of foreign interference in Afghanistan has been dealt a thoroughly predictable blow

Essays & reportage The fall of Singapore Mark Baker 24 April 2021 Extract | Signals officer Doug Lush witnessed up close the disastrous impact of a strategic miscalculation Correspondents The life of an exile Klaus Neumann 20 April 2021 A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann From the archive Signing up for an invasion Tom Hyland 16 April 2021 How did two very different leaders — Tony Blair and John Howard — come to join George W. Bush’s “march of folly”? National affairs Brereton’s unfinished business Hamish McDonald 14 April 2021 With the war crimes unit getting to work, will Afghan victims be compensated and whistleblowers protected?

Books & arts Good war, long war, whose war? Antonia Finnane 9 November 2020 Books | China is reshaping how its citizens view the second world war Books & arts A story of the twentieth century Frank Bongiorno 30 September 2020 Books | The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way Essays & reportage “Before Noumea, there was only London, Washington and Ottawa” Nic Maclellan 18 September 2020 Eighty years after helping defend New Caledonia against Japan, Australia is mobilising to counter another rising Asian power Books & arts The making of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” Matthew Ricketson 4 August 2020 Books | The influential New Yorker article changed the way we think about nuclear weapons