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warfare
Recovered Lives
On the edge of history
Alexandra McKinnon
8 March 2019
Nell Malone (1881–1963), hospital orderly and governess
Recovered Lives
Another brilliant career
Alexandra McKinnon
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
Recovered Lives
From Melbourne to Bletchley Park, and back
Shannon Lovelady
8 March 2019
Roma Craze (1915–95), intelligence analyst
National Affairs
Saving the War Memorial from itself
Dean Ashenden
15 January 2019
It’s time for the AWM to rethink its attitude to the frontier wars. But that means its critics, and the Labor Party, need to change tack too
Books & Arts
Fighting on all fronts
Norman Abjorensen
3 December 2018
Books
| A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
From the archive
Suspended between life and death
Richard Johnstone
16 November 2018
Peter Jackson’s vivid account of the Great War is also a tribute to the art of the cinema
Essays & Reportage
Billy Hughes and the flying egg
Peter Spearritt
9 November 2018
A little-known incident captures divisions among Australians during the first world war
Essays & Reportage
The faces behind the stone
Scott Bennett
9 November 2018
A visit to Ypres prompts the question: do war memorials hide more than they reveal?
Essays & Reportage
Gustav Klimt and the end of the Habsburg Empire
John Tilemann
9 November 2018
How is Austria marking the centenary of the end of the empire?
National Affairs
Don’t mention the war
Dean Ashenden
5 November 2018
Like the Australian War Memorial itself, many of its critics share a fundamental blind spot
International
Rebuilding Palmyra – in Washington?
Ross Burns
28 September 2018
Funds for a campaign to publicise the destruction of historical sites might be better spent where the damage was done
National Affairs
How, and why, do we go to war?
Paul Barratt
17 August 2018
Special Forces should not be exempt from the rules of warfare, says a former head of the defence department. But there’s also a deeper question: how do we make the decision to…
Essays & Reportage
Fighting words
Peter Cochrane
2 August 2018
Extract
| As the first world war approached, anxiety grew about the vulnerability of Australia to attack from the north. A key role was played by the man who would be the…
Books & Arts
Remembering the Dunera
Peter Mares
13 July 2018
Books
| A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Correspondents
Russia’s war on history
David Hayes
30 March 2018
How a poison attack in an English cathedral city became an international diplomatic crisis
Books & Arts
War’s long shadow
Tom Hyland
8 March 2018
Books
| A new account of postwar Australia challenges the myth that veterans were always treated with respect and sympathy
Essays & Reportage
The undiplomatic diplomat
Alan Fewster
8 February 2018
Extract
| Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
Books & Arts
“What have I become?”
Tom Hyland
14 December 2017
Books
| Critics of Chris Masters’s account of special forces in Afghanistan have deflected attention from the book’s key message
Essays & Reportage
When the British spied on Billy Hughes at Versailles
Carl Bridge
6 December 2017
… and how they shared what they learned with the Americans
Books & Arts
A fine balance
Maruta Rodan
15 October 2017
Books
| Sheila Fitzpatrick brilliantly illuminates her subject and his tumultuous times
Essays & Reportage
Reading about a revolution
Norman Abjorensen
10 October 2017
A gathering flow of news about the revolutionary movement in Russia reached Australian readers during 1917
International
How close is the end of the war in Syria?
Ross Burns
25 September 2017
Foreign interference, however well-intentioned, could still prolong the conflict
Books & Arts
Cinema in a time of war
Brian McFarlane
4 September 2017
How did film-makers resolve the paradox of creating complex feature films during a period of total war?
International
Territory trouble
Louise Merrington
12 July 2017
Despite more than a century of negotiations, the China–India border dispute has flared again, this time under two strongly nationalist leaders
International
A turning point in Syria?
Ross Burns
24 June 2017
Islamic State’s destruction of the heritage of a great Islamic leader, Nur al-Din, signals a new desperation
Books & Arts
Fortunes of war
Jane Goodall
14 June 2017
A rediscovered memoir and a multi-season French drama point to new ways of thinking about the second world war
International
Is Libya on the verge of a peace deal?
Natasha Ezrow
29 May 2017
The terrorist attack in Manchester has focused attention on chronic instability in Libya. But there are signs of progress
Books & Arts
The first war for country, for nation
Emily Gallagher
18 May 2017
Exhibitions
| An exhibition and an unveiling at the Australian War Memorial suggest a willingness to tell a deeper story about Australia’s frontier past
Essays & Reportage
Menzies in clubland
Sybil Nolan
21 April 2017
When Robert Menzies’s pursuit of political ambitions annoyed key figures in the Melbourne establishment, they made their displeasure known through the city’s most exclusive…
Books & Arts
How unfair was the Versailles peace treaty?
Michael Mckernan
18 April 2017
Books
| A new history turns the conventional view on its head
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