Honest History’s reviews are found here, with the latest at the top of the list. You can scroll down and find reviews of a wide range of books, of a generally historical bent, along with the occasional movie or television show or periodical.
Honest History’s reviews during 2017 included books about:
- the Potsdam Conference of 1945;
- Captain Cook’s first voyage 1768-71;
- stories from Australia’s convict era;
- peacemaking and the anti-war movement in Aotearoa New Zealand over more than a century;
- the origins of World War I (a review translated from German);
- Australian aphorisms;
- Australian generals Monash and Chauvel;
- the Frontier Wars in Tasmania;
- General ‘Pompey’ Elliott’s letters and diaries;
- British POWs in Europe during World War II;
- Armidale, NSW, during and after the Great War;
- Charles Todd, the man behind the Overland Telegraph;
- World War I returned soldiers in WA;
- the Great War from various perspectives, Australian and world;
- Canada’s obsession with the Vimy Ridge battle in World War I;
- the first governor of Adelaide Gaol, a renowned humanitarian;
- short biographies of a collection of Australians;
- the Wobblies of World War I;
- ‘scorched earth’ policies in Australia during World War II;
- wild rabbits in Australia;
- the World War I sniper Billy Sing;
- the ‘aviatrix’ Chubbie Miller;
- the legal aspects of Anzac;
- the discovery of gold in Australia;
- the Indigenous history of Tasmania;
- the history of Crown Street Women’s Hospital, Sydney;
- a war crime in Rabaul, 1942;
- urban design aspects of Martin Place, Sydney;
- nursing in the RAAF;
- Sir Paul Hasluck; and
- war correspondent, Chester Wilmot.
Reading on a Rainy Day, 1811 (Wikimedia Commons/McGill Library/George Mills)
Many thanks to our reviewers, Derek Abbott, Kristen Alexander, Frank Bongiorno, Pamela Burton, Grahame Crocket, Martin Crotty, Rowan Day, Vance Gainsborough, Emily Gallagher, Tjanara Goreng Goreng, Jo Hawkins, Douglas Hynd, Amanda Laugesen, John Moses, John Myrtle, Margaret Pender, Michael Piggott, Marian Quartly, John Shield, Christina Spittel, Peter Stanley, David Stephens, Jurgen Tampke, Douglas Wilkie.
18 December 2017
