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Side profile portrait of Adolf Hitler.

Hitler as military leader

By his own account a genius, was Hitler chiefly responsible for Nazi Germany's military defeat?

By Sir Richard J. Evans

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Australian Army soldiers from Special Operations Task Group conduct a range practise in Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan, in 2012.

Assessing war trauma

The health costs of the war in Afghanistan raise unanswered questions.

By Alexander McFarlane

Afghanistan
Horses in France: Nord Pas de Calais

Animals in war

Australians have had a long history of fighting alongside animals.

By Meleah Hampton

Private Victor Nelson of 2/3 Pioneer Battalion at Tarakan, Borneo, 1945

Service as Citizenship

After the First World War, Indigenous soldiers struggled to gain rights and recognition.

By Rachel Caines

First World War 1914 - 1918
General Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister John Curtin, 1943

The Final Campaigns

Australian forces were more engaged in 1945 than in any other year of the Second World War.

By Dr Karl James

Second World War 1939 - 1945
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

Roy Hodgkinson, 14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery (Militia) Fixed Defences, Darwin (1942) AWM ART22719

Bombing Darwin 1942

A successful Japanese raid caught the Allied forces unprepared.

By Dr Thomas Rogers

Second World War 1939 - 1945
British troops along the beach at Cape Helles

The Evacuation of Helles

After the Australian escape from Anzac Cove on Gallipoli would similar deceptions work again?

By Peter Hart

First World War 1914 - 1918
Private Henry Horneman - Korea

Life in the Line

Soldiers of 1RAR in Korea

By Rose Dryzek

Korean War 1950 - 1953
Reg Saunders and Tom Derrick shake hands after graduating from the Officer Cadets Training Unit

In his own words

The combat diaries of Diver Derrick

By Dr Mark Johnston

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Portrait of Agnes Betty Jeffrey

Forbidden diaries

Sister Betty Jeffrey's story of survival, courage, and comradeship as a prisoner of war.

By Robyn van Dyk

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Private John ‘Dogger’ Dick examining his negatives

Darkroom on the 38th Parallel

War zone Korea posed difficulties for photographers who shot and developed their film in situ.

By Greta Wass

Korean War 1950 - 1953
General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim and other senior officers arrive at Trent Park

The Walls Have Ears

Eavesdropping on German prisoners in England provided crucial intelligence.

By Dr Helen Fry

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Australian soldiers inspect Mephisto, a German A7V tank

A Tale of Two Tanks

Mephisto was not the first tank to cause a stir on arrival in Australia.

By Meleah Hampton

First World War 1914 - 1918
Three members of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), confer with a North Korean interpreter (left) who is serving with the battalion. Saunders is second from the right, smoking a pipe.

The fighting Gunditjmara

Indigenous people have fought for Country and for nation, from frontier wars to world wars.

By Dr Lachlan Grant

Painting by Roy Hodgkinson, titled Americans and Aborigines.

The Flying Bunyips

An American squadron that recognised the support of the Aboriginal community.

By Garth O'Connell

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
Members of No. 3 Squadron with one of the parachutes for dropping ammunition.

Dropping in at Hamel

An innovation at the Battle of Hamel was created by an Australian aircraft-industry pioneer.

By Di Rutherford

First World War 1914 - 1918
An old Frenchwoman at the entrance to her brick house, Villers-Bretonneux

Alone in the Ruins

After the battle, war correspondent Charles Bean found an elderly woman alone in the ruins.

First World War 1914 - 1918
Australian troops serving in INTERFET pass a group of East Timorese locals celebrating independence.

Exploring East Timor

The official history of Australia’s role in the East Timor crisis.

By Dr David Sutton

Peacekeeping
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
Vibrant painting showing a man eating with a Nazi soldier, with other green uniformed soldiers brandishing weapons outside to search haystacks.

Stories of Survival

An immigrant artist left a record of her wartime story.

By Ally Roche

Second World War 1939 - 1945