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Hal Colebatch's new book, Australia's Secret War, tells the shocking, true, but until now largely suppressed and hidden story of the war waged ...
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of 'B' Company, 39th Battalion, spent ...
Leading expert Gavin Mortimer tells the remarkable origin story of a wartime special forces unit that defied the odds.
Z Special Unit, one of the ...
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Battles in New Guinea David W. Cameron one of Australia's leading military historians new Kokoda Campaign series will ...
To the Australian Army, Private Lawrence Nicholas Kennedy was NX21854, a soldier who served for 1907 days with the 2/4th Australian Army Field Ambulance ...
In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never ...
They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and American troops lifted when they ...
Travel with a group of captured Australian nurses into the dark heart of the ascendant Japanese Empire at the start of the Pacific War.
Quiver ...
A Coastwatcher's work is ... to sit in hiding like a spider, right in the web of the enemy, unseen and unheard. We became the ...
The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards?
For almost two years the ...
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off ...
The British Admiralty's telegram arrived at Navy Office in Melbourne, the order to go to all-out war. It was coldly succinct- TOTAL GERMANY ... The ...
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal ...
The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the ...
