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STEPHEN GARTON The Cost of War. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

STEPHEN GARTON The Cost of War. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 16 Jul 2020 | Non-fiction | 2 comments

This revised edition of Stephen Garton’s The Cost of War, on the impact of war on individuals and society, remains all too relevant. Let us begin with the proposition that war is hell; that those who become involved in it become agents of terror, or victims, or...
NICK RICHARDSON The Game of Their Lives. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

NICK RICHARDSON The Game of Their Lives. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 25 Aug 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

The Game of Their Lives is a compelling account of Australian Rules football and the men who played it in a time of war. Central to this story is the exhibition match played between teams from the Australian Imperial Force’s 3rd Division and the training units at...
VICKEN BABKENIAN and PETER STANLEY Armenia, Australia & the Great War. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

VICKEN BABKENIAN and PETER STANLEY Armenia, Australia & the Great War. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

by NRB | 12 May 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

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...
JENNY ACKLAND The Secret Son. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren

JENNY ACKLAND The Secret Son. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren

by NRB | 6 Oct 2015 | Fiction | 0 comments

This charming and inventive first novel is audaciously told and richly woven.  Growing up near Beechworth in the mid-1880s, James Kelly inhabits a small but blissful world that revolves around his adoring mother, his favourite picture book, the bull in the paddock...
PAUL HAM 1914: The Year the War Ended. Reviewed by Rod Madgwick

PAUL HAM 1914: The Year the War Ended. Reviewed by Rod Madgwick

by NRB | 6 Feb 2014 | Non-fiction | 1 comment

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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