Wartime 77 - Summer 2017

Wartime 77

Axis Ascendant: Nazis on the move

Featured articles:

  • Blitzkrieg - exploding the myth? by James Holland. The Nazi regime was committed to a strategy that had many flaws built into it.
  • Grinding to a halt by David Stahel. Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, had more than a determined enemy to cope with.
  • Surviving the holocaust by Lachlan Grant. Remembering the survivors from Hitler's Europe who made new lives in postwar Australia.
  • Pearl harbour 75 years on by Jonathan Parshall. The famous battle is still open to new interpretations.
  • A Japanese invasion? by Steven Bullard. A proposed invasion of Australia was never a realistic proposition.
  • The beginning of the end by Xavier Fowler. One Catastrophic night in the battle of Singapore.
  • Fighting for time by Garth Pratten. The Japanese driving charge proved too much for British and Commonwealth forces in the Malayan campaign.
  • Plus regular features, including Reflections, Mail Call, and book reviews.

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In this issue

Japanese soldier points gun during military training video

Captured Japanese Film

Reels of Japanese film, captured by Australian forces post WWII

By Daniel Eisenberg

Second World War 1939 - 1945
An ornate and fastidiously decorated fascist eagle clasping a Roman fasces, from which are suspended the symbols of the three Axis allies, each contained within a decorated wreath - from left to right, the Nazi swastika; the Italian arms and the Japanese 'rising sun' flag.

An Axis ornament

Trench art created at the POW camp in Cowra, NSW.

By Kerry Neale

Second World War 1939 - 1945