by NRB | 6 Jul 2016 | Non-fiction |
Unnecessary Wars provides a powerful antidote to the pervasive militarising of Australian history over the past 20 years. Not how, but why, is the most compelling question posed by Henry Reynolds in this book, which examines Australian debates about war and peace,...
by NRB | 12 May 2016 | Non-fiction |
Armenia, Australia & the Great War is a rigorously researched history that focuses on Australians’ experiences of the Armenian genocide. In 1915, just hours before the Anzac soldiers began their attack on Gallipoli, the Ottoman Empire put in motion the world’s...
by NRB | 6 Feb 2014 | Non-fiction |
Paul Ham provides a readable and fair-minded corrective to the history wars being waged in the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. If you have ever stood by the grave of an Australian, or any other soldier, who died in the First World War and wondered at the...
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