Issue 1 - Autumn 2025

WM Issue 1 - Autumn 2025 cover

The end of the Second World War

WM is the official magazine of the Australian War Memorial and Australia's foremost military history magazine.

Published twice a year (Autumn and Spring), each issue is illustrated throughout with incredible images from the Australian War Memorial archives.

Issue 1 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, sharing the fascinating events leading to Allied victory.

Highlights include:

  • The ground-breaking women who went undercover as spies in Europe.
  • The search for MIA Airmen from Bomber Command.
  • The little-known story of Australian POWs held at Buchenwald concentration camp.

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In this issue

Holly with her paternal grandparents and sisters during the Bicentennial Naval Review, January 1988.

An Arc of Service

A Wollongong builder, a nurse, an Ararat grocer and a bank clerk. Normal Australians. My family.

By Holly Pritchard

Portrait of Flight Sergeant Keith Mills in his uniform

Australian airmen at Buchenwald

Downed Australian airmen were sent to a concentration camp, instead of to a military prison.

By Emily Hyles

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Charles Wheeler, Charge of the 2nd Infantry Brigade at Krithia, oil on canvas, 1927.

The Second Battle of Krithia

The Anzacs’ first offensive at Krithia was doomed - and the cost was devastating.

By Mat McLachlan

First World War 1914 - 1918