Eight decades after the end of World War II, history’s largest conflict still has lessons for Australia. Among the most important is that we must expect large-scale mobilisation. Today, despite our population being four times …
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In World War II, the United States built a western Pacific airfield here, another there, and more elsewhere, each intended to bring more Japanese targets into range. Now the abundance of old bases is becoming …
At midnight on 27 February 1942, 119 men of C Company of the British 2nd Parachute Battalion and one Royal Air Force technician parachuted into occupied France near the small coastal town of Bruneval under …
The Great Man theory of history, which posits that history is shaped mainly by hugely influential and singular individuals, was once the primary form of historical writing. It has largely fallen out of favour in …
There have been a great many books written about the 6 June 1944 invasion of Normandy by allied forces. Sir Max Hastings made a fine contribution to the literature on the subject in 1984 with …