Journal of the Australian War Memorial articles from March 1 1999

Journal of the Australian War Memorial archives from March 1 1999

"We cannot afford to be left too far behind Australia": New Zealand's entry into the Vietnam War in May 1965.
March 1, 1999... 1. In his article "Countdown to commitment" (Journal of the Australian War Memorial 21 (October 1992)) Peter Edwards, Official Historian of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, reconstructed the immediate political context of the...

A map to Paradise Road: a guide for historians.
March 1, 1999... 1. In the early afternoon of Saturday 14 February the British ship Vyner Brooke, carrying some of the last civilians to escape from Singapore, was steaming just off south-east Sumatra. Among the passengers and obvious in their uniforms of grey...

Frank Cain ed., Menzies in war and peace.(Book Review)
March 1, 1999... Frank Cain ed., Menzies in war and peace, Allen and Unwin in association with the Australian Defence Studies Centre, Canberra, 1997, pp. 179, index, paperback, rrp A$24.95 In this collection Frank Cain has assembled nine essays on aspects...

Bridget Goodwin, Keen as mustard: Britain's horrific chemical warfare experiments in Australia.(Book Review)
March 1, 1999... Bridget Goodwin, Keen as mustard: Britain's horrific chemical warfare experiments in Australia, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1998, pp. xviii, 361, photographs, appendices, end notes, bibliography, index. Bridget Goodwin has...

Jeffrey Grey, Up top: the Royal Australian Navy and the southeast Asian conflicts, 1955-1972.(Book Review)
March 1, 1999... Jeffrey Grey, Up top: the Royal Australian Navy and the southeast Asian conflicts, 1955-1972, Sydney, Allen and Unwin in Association with the Australian War Memorial, 1998, pp. 380, index, photographs, bibliography The service of the Royal...