“Eastward Ho!” The last days of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
When on the 18 July 1864 Joseph E. Johnston handed command of the Army of Tennessee to John Bell Hood, it numbered 64,000 effectives, 47,000 infantry including the Georgia militia, 13,000 cavalrymen and 4,000...
A War Worth Fighting
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Australian enlistment numbers and motivation in the First World War
The centenary of the First World War has given reason for historians and writers in general to look anew at...
UNIONISM IN EXCELSIS: The Liverpool Soldier Strike, 1916
Image Source: (1916, February 15). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), p. 7.
On St Valentine’s Day 1916 one of the worst examples of soldier unrest occurred in Australia’s military history when...
Anzac 2015 reflection
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It might be my imagination, though I think not, but did the nation’s celebration of Australia Day go up a notch this year? Without the aid of extensive survey...
Generally speaking, the very model of a modern war historian
This article was written John Elder and published by The Age on January 30, 2011:Generally speaking, the very model of a modern war historian
