Journal of the Australian War Memorial articles from December 2001

Journal of the Australian War Memorial archives from December 2001

"Diggers" and "doughboys": Australian and American troop interaction on the Western Front, 1918.
December 1, 2001... {1} Last century Australia fought in four major wars: the First World War, the Second World War, Korea and Vietnam. A constant ally in those conflicts was the United States. For both nations, sizeable portions of their adult male populations...

Clay Blair, Hitler's U-boat war: the hunted, 1942-1945.(Book Review)
December 1, 2001... Clay Blair, Hitler's U-boat war: the hunted, 1942-1945, Random House, New York, 2000, xxviii + 909 pp., illustrations, maps, appendixes, index, soft cover, rrp US$18.95. The hunted is the second volume of the late Clay Blair's monumental...

Resurrecting a war memorial.(Adelaide Teachers College )
December 1, 2001... {1} On 18 May 2001, fifty years after its original dedication, the Adelaide Teachers College War Memorial was rededicated in the Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide. In unveiling a plaque, John Bailey (State President of the...

An attack on Melbourne: a case study of the defence of Australia's major ports in the early 1890s.
December 1, 2001... {1} The casual visitor to a dismantled fort or battery in any of Australia's numerous coastal defences that predate World War II will usually be impressed by its functional, architectural complexity. On the other hand, on discovering that none...

Deborah Montgomerie, The women's war: New Zealand women 1939-45.(Book Review)
December 1, 2001... Deborah Montgomerie, The women's war: New Zealand women 1939-45, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2001, 203 pp., illustrations, tables, endnotes, index, NZ$39.95 In addition to being a fascinating study of the lives of New Zealand...

Albert Palazzo, Seeking victory on the Western Front: the British army and chemical warfare in World War I.(Book Review)
December 1, 2001... Albert Palazzo, Seeking victory on the Western Front: the British army and chemical warfare in World War I, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2000, 239pp., illustrations, bibliography, index, rrp US$50 Two recent books...

Bob Reece, Masa Jepun: Sarawak under the Japanese 1941-1945.(Book Review)
December 1, 2001... Bob Reece, Masa Jepun: Sarawak under the Japanese 1941-1945, Kuching, Sarawak, Sarawak Literary Society, 1998, xix + 254 pp., map, illustrations, bibliography, rrp hard cover A$65, soft cover A$45 (incl. packing & postage) Until the...

The empire is listening: naval signals intelligence in the Far East to 1942.
December 1, 2001... {1} Of all the various forms of intelligence gathering, signals intelligence (1) and cryptanalysis are the forms which have created the most interest among modern historians. The reason for this is not just because of the secretive nature of...

George Davies, The occupation of Japan: the rhetoric and the reality of Anglo-Australasian relations 1939-1952.(Book Review)
December 1, 2001... George Davies, The occupation of Japan: the rhetoric and the reality of Anglo-Australasian relations 1939-1952, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld, 2001, xviii + 391 pp., soft cover, $34.95 The last fifteen years have seen a...