For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know the names of the men who fought on the track, or even the details of what happened. More Australians died in the months of fighting in Papua, than in any other campaign of World War II. Now bestselling author Peter ...
For if ever things get too out of hand, you risk being arrested by the Joes, to be dragged off to the lockup in the Government Camp.It is from here that the newly promoted Resident Gold Commissioner, Robert Rede – who arrives on the Ballarat goldfields just a few weeks after Carboni and Lalor – r...
H. Hall, defending the army against those who say that censors are keeping the truth from Australia EARLY HOURS, 2 SEPTEMBER 1915, ON IMBROS, HAMILTON DROWNS Hands are closing around General Ian Hamilton’s throat and pushing him under the waters of the Dardanelles. He can’t breathe, can’t breathe...
So that when this is not written in good order and clarity there are two good reasons; firstly, I had not the time, for the Ships are ready to sail for the Fatherland; secondly, we have just come out of such sorrow that the mind is still a little confused, for I had not in mind to write so much ....
We are lousy, stinking, unshaven, sleepless…I have one puttee, a man’s helmet, another dead man’s bayonet. My tunic rotten with other men’s blood and partly spattered with a comrade’s brains.LIEUTENANT ALEC RAWS, FROM MELBOURNE, WRITING TO A FRIEND, ABOUT CONDITIONS IN THE TRENCHES ON FRANCE’S WE...