Books & arts
15 December 2019
Books | A new collection of essays brings further proof that Great War history is unavoidably political
Essays & reportage
12 December 2019
Keynes’s book on the Versailles Treaty not only predicted dire results, but also provided guidance for those planning the global economic system following the second world war
International
4 December 2019
Tightly controlled and generously funded, the PLA hasn’t seen battle overseas since 1979
Essays & reportage
25 April 2019
A chance reference leads to a bloody battlefield and a different Australia
Essays & reportage
22 April 2019
In different countries at different times, two prisoners used poetry to communicate their experiences
Books & arts
17 April 2019
Books | Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination?
Books & arts
14 March 2019
Books | What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Nell Malone (1881–1963), hospital orderly and governess
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Kathleen Ussher (1891–1983), illustrator, writer, public servant
Recovered Lives
8 March 2019
Roma Craze (1915–95), intelligence analyst
National affairs
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
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
16 November 2018
Peter Jackson’s vivid account of the Great War is also a tribute to the art of the cinema
Essays & reportage
9 November 2018
A little-known incident captures divisions among Australians during the first world war
Essays & reportage
9 November 2018
A visit to Ypres prompts the question: do war memorials hide more than they reveal?
Essays & reportage
9 November 2018
How is Austria marking the centenary of the end of the empire?
National affairs
5 November 2018
Like the Australian War Memorial itself, many of its critics share a fundamental blind spot
International
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
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
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
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
International
30 March 2018
How a poison attack in an English cathedral city became an international diplomatic crisis
Books & arts
8 March 2018
Books | A new account of postwar Australia challenges the myth that veterans were always treated with respect and sympathy
Essays & reportage
8 February 2018
Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
Books & arts
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
6 December 2017
… and how they shared what they learned with the Americans
Books & arts
15 October 2017
Books | Sheila Fitzpatrick brilliantly illuminates her subject and his tumultuous times
Essays & reportage
10 October 2017
A gathering flow of news about the revolutionary movement in Russia reached Australian readers during 1917
International
25 September 2017
Foreign interference, however well-intentioned, could still prolong the conflict
Books & arts
4 September 2017
How did film-makers resolve the paradox of creating complex feature films during a period of total war?