Wartime 92 - Spring 2020

Wartime Issues 92

The Hot Cold War

Featured articles:

  • That crazy Australian by Michael Kelly. A small number of Australians were caught up in the brutal battle for Hue during the Tet Offensive.
  • "To build a dike" by Gregory A. Daddis. America’s war in Vietnam was as much about its own credibility as it was about fighting communism.
  • Road to Dien Bien Phu by Craig Tibbits. French colonial ambitions led to la sale guerre, France’s dirty war in Indochina, 1946–54.
  • The Malayan Emergency by Brian P. Farrell. British success in managing regional and colonial conflicts turned on realising which actions should not be taken.
  • "So close and so real" by Hannah Viney. The Vietnam Moratoriums revived a struggling peace movement, but did they end Australian involvement in the war?
  • Felt like family by Elise Horspool. Choi Yung Kil’s Korean War.
  • War and mourning by Meghan Adams. Men who lost sons in the First World War had few outlets for their grief.
  • Skin in the game by Tristan Moss. Australia’s long defence relationship with Papua New Guinea is based on shared history.
  • Plus regular features including Reflections, Collection Insights, In the Picture, Spinning the Reels, book reviews and Last Post.

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In this issue

An Australian officer and a group of the 1st Papuan Infantry Battalion

Skin in the Game

Australia’s long defence relationship with Papua New Guinea is based in shared history.

By Tristan Moss

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Japanese workmen wearing gas masks directing jet from a mobile flame-thrower towards a pile of gasoline-soaked debris.

Toxic Island

The messy and painstaking work of cleaning up munitions in the former theatres of WWII

By Emma White

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Lynn Arnold speaks into a microphone

Ripples of Wartime

Ripples of Wartime is a series of 12 short interviews with Australians about the Vietnam War.

By Sarah Kershaw

Vietnam War 1962 - 1975