World War II
- An Unknown Soldier
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A father’s World War II keepsake sparks a harrowing journey Robin Barker ... British and Bornean war dead from World War II. The climb is conducted in two stages. The first stage, ...
The Monthly - Robin Barker - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- History as Fiction. Marr, Grenville, Rash, Cercas, Erpenpeck
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the legacies of the Vietnam War and the Spanish Civil War; Ron Rash's lyrical narratives have long mined ... Australia has won her legions of fans the world over; and Jenny Erpenbeck's poetic fictions gracefully ...
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- Comment: The Shock Jock Rule of Campbell Newman
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John Birmingham It was Winston Churchill who famously refused to cut funding to the arts to pay for more Spitfires and destroyers during the grimmest days of World War II, demanding of his art-hating, penny-pinching advisers ...
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- The Adventures of Clive Palmer
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Clive Palmer to build Titanic II Mining magnate Clive Palmer has floated plans to build a fleet of world class luxury liners, including a 21st-century version of the Titanic … With the latest navigation and safety systems, Titanic II will sail in the northern hemisphere, with her maiden voyage from ...
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- The Anatomy of a Moment. Javier Cercas in Conversation
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language world with his spectacular novel about the Spanish Civil War, Soldiers of Salamis . Soon after, he published The Speed of Light , a novel about the Vietnam War. Most recently Cercas has ...
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- Syria's propaganda war
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Syria's propaganda war "As the threat against foreign journalists has increased in Syria, so has the media's reliance on opposition activists on the ground. But amid the growing fog of war, it's becoming harder to tell the difference ...
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- Eighteen soldiers: the photographs from Zabul
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(Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, US military, New Yorker) ...
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- 'The Hanging Garden' by Patrick White
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World War II form a fragile bond. Two decades after White’s death, it’s extraordinary and moving ... (April 2012, Noted, Fiction, Greece, Patrick White, World War II) ... the world of two children nearing adolescence. Eirene has come to Sydney from Greece, where her communist ...
The Monthly - Michelle de Kretser - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A veteran's death
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of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq combined since those wars began. " ...
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- Once Were Warriors
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of Labor’s working-class identity after World War II, class warfare denunciations continued to occupy ... Wayne Swan, World War I, World War II) ... of World War I and the tumult of the Great Depression, if Labor leaders have spoken the language of class ...
The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- When the going's good
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(Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, The Age) ...
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- Iran's spymaster
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Iran's spymaster "American and British intelligence officials draw comparisons between the real-life Iranian general and the fictional Soviet spymaster Karla, of John le Carre's Cold War novels. Global chess masters both, their goal ...
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- A Romantic B&B
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The sounds have died with it: the howling laughter of soldiers on leave from the Vietnam War; the cackle ... was Addams Family anarchy, crammed with the paraphernalia of 40 years: the detritus of the Vietnam War ...
The Monthly - Paul Ham - 2012-05-10 16:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Rockin’ Rupert
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of the World phone-hacking investigation? Still, I’d be curious to know how many followers responded ... in Switzerland, with a stop in Munich to sample the beer that he declares “best in the world!” But such paltry ... of “very soon”: war is always such a boost to the news business. Published in The Monthly , April ...
The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-04-05 16:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Autumn of the Patriarch
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Eisenhower and Vietnam, when everything was on a knife edge and the world could be won or lost. The moment ... a concentration camp here during the war. Everywhere in Timor there were memories, and the worse were the more ... got back to the house and JRH disappeared into the shadows of his home. * Among the world’s ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- One Morning with Malcolm
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you looking forward to a breed of men after the war who will have become boneless wonders? Leaners ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Ferry into the Past
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devising; a shadowy past world, suffused with loss and longing, that we stitched together from Wuthering ... at the battle of Quebec, where General Wolfe was killed in 1759, as well as the siege of Yorktown, where the war ... to fight in Germany. Reading military history had by now informed me that the war with Germany was over ...
The Monthly - Cassandra Pybus - 2012-05-01 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Long Goodbye: Explaining Gillard’s Collapse
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into hitherto uncharted territory for post-war federal Labor, the Gillard government’s average, two ... for two and a half years Kevin Rudd led one of the most popular governments in post-war Australian ... one of the only nations in the Western world to emerge from the global financial crisis without ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments
- 'Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend of the World’s Most Famous Dog' by Susan Orlean
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Michelle de Kretser In World War I, trained ‘mercy dogs’ roamed among the wounded on the battlefields of France. A soldier ... (March 2012, Noted, France, German sheperds, Hollywood, Mercy dogs, Rin Tin Tin, World War I) ...
The Monthly - Michelle de Kretser - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Losing Sergeant Bales
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(Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, New Yorker) ...
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- My Drone War
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My Drone War "If the conduct of the drone war is mysterious, the terrain over which it is fought is not, at least to me – I have known it all my life." (Pir Zubair Shah) ...
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- Bearing Witness in Syria: A War Reporter’s Last Days
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Bearing Witness in Syria: A War Reporter’s Last Days "Finally, a small covered truck drove quietly within sight of us and we carried Anthony, whose death I could still not come to terms with, into the back, where I climbed ...
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- Africa's dirty wars
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Dirty wars " This is the story of conflict in Africa these days. What we are seeing is the decline of the classic wars by freedom fighters and the proliferation of something else - something wilder, messier, more predatory, and harder to define." ...
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- Massacre in Kandahar
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(Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, Kandahar, New Yorker) ...
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- Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals
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television, YouTube and screen savers, trapped in Pixar worlds, serving as light relief at the end ... to watch over your world. Hell, animals are even in our dreams – we wake up talking of lions, snakes ... oval during a semi-final game. In a ceremony on the lawn at the Australian War Memorial ...
The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-03-13 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
