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warfare
Essays & Reportage
This glorious moment
Stuart Macintyre
12 August 2015
Extract
| Seventy years ago this week, prime minister Ben Chifley announced that the war in the Pacific was over. Planning for peace was already well under way, writes…
Books & Arts
Australia reconstructs
Hannah Forsyth
15 June 2015
Books
| Stuart Macintyre’s history of Australia in the 1940s is a big book in the best sense
Essays & Reportage
“A striking illustration of how noble compassion can circle the globe”
Klaus Neumann
12 June 2015
The low-key public debate over the arrival of European refugees in the late 1930s contrasts dramatically with the outcry when Jewish Holocaust survivors arrived nearly a decade…
Essays & Reportage
Letters from a pilgrimage
Ken Inglis
24 April 2015
In April 1965
Ken Inglis
travelled to Gallipoli with 300 Anzac pilgrims and filed seven reports along the way for the
Canberra Times
. Here he introduces two of those despatches
National Affairs
Gallipoli and forgetting
Nic Maclellan
23 April 2015
More French soldiers died at Gallipoli than Australians, writes
Nic Maclellan
, and many of the allied troops were African and Indian
Summer season
War stories
Jeannine Baker
15 April 2015
Women reporters showed they could report alongside men during the second world war
Books & Arts
Peter FitzSimons: poltergeist with two brains
David Stephens
25 March 2015
Books
| The self-described “storian” sells himself short in
Gallipoli
, writes
David Stephens
International
Peace in our time
John Besemeres
23 March 2015
Superficially, the Minsk Two agreement promises much. But, asks
John Besemeres
, can its European signatories counter Vladimir Putin’s long-run campaign to…
International
Tokyo, flickers of memory
David Hayes
10 March 2015
The firebombing of March 1945 lives on the margins of public remembrance
Books & Arts
How good went bad in Afghanistan
Tom Hyland
4 March 2015
Books
| A new account of a long war lays bare a series of miscalculations and misunderstandings, writes
Tom Hyland
Books & Arts
What happened next
Richard Johnstone
23 February 2015
Photography
| Unlike conventional war photography, aftermath photographs record consequences and allow us to explore the significance of what’s depicted, writes…
Books & Arts
Places left behind
Richard Johnstone
20 November 2014
Melbourne-born photographer Ashley Gilbertson has abandoned action photography for a different way of depicting warfare, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
Edging through the fog
Graeme Dobell
13 November 2014
A diplomat and a psychologist have produced a remarkable guide to dealing with intransigent conflicts, writes
Graeme Dobell
Books & Arts
Captured by the Thuilliers
Richard Johnstone
8 November 2014
From the archive
|
Remember Me: The Lost Diggers of Vignacourt
is on show in Sydney until 15 January 2015.
Richard Johnstone
reviewed its Canberra run…
International
Worlds of war
Daniel Nethery
5 November 2014
Exhibitions across Europe show that national histories continue to shape the telling of the first world war, writes
Daniel Nethery
International
Unsettled times at The Hague
Sophie Rigney
22 October 2014
Three controversial judgements have highlighted the challenges facing the International Criminal Court as it prepares to move to its permanent home, writes
Sophie Rigney
Books & Arts
“Even my darkroom is a haunted place”
Richard Johnstone
20 October 2014
Although he is best known as a war photographer, Don McCullin has aimed to do much more than record his own adventures, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
Going for a song
Andrew Ford
13 October 2014
Andrew Ford
considers breaking the habit of a lifetime
International
Will today’s allies become, yet again, tomorrow’s enemies?
John Quiggin
6 October 2014
When a militarily powerful country tries to govern the affairs of millions of people on the other side of the planet, we shouldn’t be surprised that chaos results, writes…
National Affairs
Militarisation marches on
Henry Reynolds
25 September 2014
The militarisation of Australia’s history has begun to reflect back on the present and change our political practice, argues
Henry Reynolds
Essays & Reportage
Uncivil aviation: Biggles down under
Adam Nicol
15 August 2014
W.E. Johns’s failure to adapt to the postwar era left Biggles a shadow of his wartime self, writes
Adam Nicol
Books & Arts
Christopher Clark’s Sleepwalkers and the Germans. A misunderstanding?
Andreas Wirsching
5 August 2014
An Australian historian’s reappraisal of the origins of the first world war has provoked enormous interest in Germany, writes
Andreas Wirsching
. But the debate…
Books & Arts
Franz Ferdinand moments
Jane Goodall
29 July 2014
The centenary of the first world war has begun, writes
Jane Goodall
, but Australia’s public broadcasters are still feeling their way
Books & Arts
China wakes, Asia quakes, Australia shivers
Graeme Dobell
25 July 2014
A contest is under way, writes
Graeme Dobell
, but it will be more like a nineteenth-century battle than a twentieth-century clash
Correspondents
Britain’s Great War: traps of memory
David Hayes
17 July 2014
The centenary of the 1914–18 war reveals Britain to be a country of permanent involution, says
David Hayes
International
Australia–Japan relations: an alternative future
David Chapman and Carolyn Stevens & Tessa Morris-Suzuki
15 July 2014
Japan’s constitutional renunciation of war shouldn’t be seen as an aberration, write
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
,
David Chapman
and
Carolyn Stevens
Essays & Reportage
How American servicemen found Ernestine Hill in their kitbags
Anna Johnston
27 June 2014
Blending journalism, romance and travelogue,
The Great Australian Loneliness
crossed a different set of borders during the second world war
Books & Arts
The lack of men, the lack of reinforcement, the lack of munitions
Mark Baker
3 June 2014
Phillip Schuler’s dispatches from Gallipoli captured the horror and the heroism for Australian readers, writes
Mark Baker
National Affairs
The ABC of patriotism
Geoff Heriot
8 May 2014
Alleged “Anti-military Bohemian Collective” member
Geoff Heriot
argues that the cause of true patriotism requires more than cheerleaders and symbolism
International
The long shadow of Bravo
Nic Maclellan
25 February 2014
Six decades after the United States conducted its most powerful nuclear test in the Marshall Islands, governments are once again debating the humanitarian impact of nuclear…
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