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Acquisitions 23 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
John Horne, ed. A Companion to World War I. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. A collection of essays by an international group of experts who provide a comprehensive overview of the war: origins, str...
Cause and effect in British air policy discourse 16 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
One of the most intriguing things to emerge from my post-blogging of the Blitz a few years ago (but which sadly didn't make it into my Blitz article) was the notion of reprisals after notice, that is ...
Acquisitions 16 Aug 2013 | 12:52 pm
Colin Dobinson. Building Radar: Forging Britain's Early Warning Chain, 1935-1945. London: Methuen, 2010. Looks like a useful complement to David Zimmerman's Britain's Shield (2001). This covers the sc...
Publication and self-archive: 'Dreaming war' 14 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
My peer-reviewed article, 'Dreaming war: airmindedness and the Australian mystery aeroplane scare of 1918', has now been published in the latest issue of History Australia, which can be found here. Th...
Acquisitions 9 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
A. O. Pollard. Epic Deeds of the RAF. London and Melbourne: Hutchinson and Co., 1940. Pollard, a VC winner and former RAF pilot, was mostly known for his crime thrillers (some of them airminded) but o...
Wellington 4 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
In between conferencing and researching, I managed to fit in some sightseeing in Wellington. It really was only a day or two, and sometimes the weather was somewhat inclement, but I did see some of th...
Notes towards a history of the commercial bomber in New Zealand 26 Jul 2013 | 06:20 pm
The main reason for my recent New Zealand trip was to go to a conference, but afterwards I spent a week researching in Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand. My main reason for ...
Cohesion and division in Wellington 19 Jul 2013 | 06:23 pm
[Cross-posted at Society for Military History Blog.] The Australasian Association for European History XXIII Biennial Conference — 'Faultlines: cohesion and division in Europe from the 18th Century t...
Acquisitions 19 Jul 2013 | 02:24 pm
Christopher M. Bell. Churchill and Sea Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. I'm on record as pledging to never write a book about Winston Churchill, because there seems to be another new one ...
Acquisitions 12 Jul 2013 | 05:02 pm
Ritchie Calder. Carry on London. London: English Universities Press, 1941. Calder was a campaigning journalist during the Blitz, who exposed many of the official civil defence failures in the New Stat...
