Hiroshima Nagasaki challenges this deep-set perception, revealing that the atomic bombings were the final crippling blow to the Japanese in a stratgic air war waged primarily against civilians.

The short life and terrible death of Christendom’s most defiant sect.

IN FEBRUARY 1534 a radical religious sect whose disciples were being persecuted throughout Europe seized the city of M…

For the first time ever, the compelling story of the infamous Kokoda Track campaign has been told from both sides of the conflict. In a unique and balanced portrayal, renowned…

Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the…

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria - Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the…

How did America choose the targets for the atomic bomb? What made Hiroshima preferable over Kyoto or Tokyo? Critical to the mission to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a series…

Talks about the infamous Kokoda Track campaign, from both sides of the conflict. The author recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the hellish Papuan jungle trail.

Captain Bullen’s War combines the irreverent humour of MASH with the sharp satire of Catch 22 in portraying one man’s extraordinary experiences of the war in Vietnam in 1968, the…