On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/01/27/o... @royalhistsoc.org

Phil Craig’s 1945: The Reckoning was my companion on our recent trip to Melbourne & the Great Ocean Road. An excellent Summer read to accompany the many small & independent local beers we sampled. What’s not to like?🏖️ 📖 🍻 #WeHaveWays #HistoryBookChat

A tragic development. The end of mass market paperbacks. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Tobruk, 85 years ago today. Facebook AWM Details in ALT @ubiquevir.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social @ima-naval-history.bsky.social

Back to work after my summer reading having caught up on British generalship & the @BritishArmy ☀️ 🏖️ 📖 Thank you Phil Bradley for the reads!

Today in 'let's make fun of the Italian army, they always surrender at the first opportunity', we have the Bardia edition. Details in ALT. @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @ubiquevir.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social @alanallport.bsky.social @vandawilcox.bsky.social @benskipper.bsky.social

Another day driving the Great Ocean Road from Torque to Lorne, Apollo Bay & the 12 Apostles - truly spectacular!

Toowoomba-based position teaching into the Bachelor of Communications & Creative Industries. Please share!

Very kind of you mate, many thanks 🍻

“Ambitious in scope, rigorously researched & forensics in its assessments”, Misfire is “a must read” for anyone interested in the Malaya Campaign in #WWII & the #history of SOF: says me! Congratulations to @hisbpf.bsky.social on his latest 📖 📚 #WeHaveWays #Historybookposts

#Newbook based on oral histories with Japanese-American @USArmy veterans, this book looks @ their translation & intelligence operations in New Guinea & Bougainville in #WWII. #historybookposts #WeHaveWays

Looking forward to possibly including you in a future issue of the @AWMemorial’s new magazine WM wm.awm.gov.au ✍️ 📖

The first two issues of the new 'WM' magazine by the AWM courtesy of @karljames1945.bsky.social.

On 1 Dec 1941 the NZ Division ceased to participate in the battle for Libya as an organised force. Some elements of it would continue to fight, most notably 5 NZ Bde which fought on the Gazala line before being withdrawn. The remaining 3,500 men and 700 vehicles on Zaafran outside Tobruk withdrew.

Great 📖 find on the weekend. 🇦🇺 war correspondent Wilfred Burchett traveled extensively in China, Burma & India reporting on the war. He was later the 1st Western journalist to visit Hiroshima. Post-#WWII, he became controversial figure. #WeHaveWays #HistBookChat

Issue 2 of our new mag ("WM") arrived on Friday! Some fantastic work inside. If you want to know more, you could always visit wm.awm.gov.au

Can’t wait to see it IRL!

Out of the office today to spend time with @AustralianArmy for the Chief of Army History Conference @ Parliament House. Fantastic keynote presentations from the Deputy Chief of Army MAJGEN Chris Smith.

It’s been a big fortnight of🏃‍♂️with a PB time for the 1/2 marathon on 2/11 with the @canberratimes Fun Run & the 15km on 15/11 with the Stromlo Running Festival. Mt Stromlo is brutal but the views are spectacular 🍻

Just finished reading @almurray’s 📖. Learnt lots about airborne ops & for the first time the battle of Arnhem made sense to me. Great shout out too to WO Keith Prowd @AusAirForce, a glider pilot with No. 196 Sqn who also flew on #DDay. Prowd was awarded a 🇳🇱 Airman’s Cross.

Terribly sad news. An incredible historian, Tim was always generous & encouraging.

On 25 October 1941 the Axis bagged one of the biggest successes in its interdiction campaign against the Tobruk Run, when Abdiel-Class mine-laying cruiser HMS Latona was sunk by dive bombers on the way to Tobruk. @karljames1945.bsky.social #navalhistory

OUT NOW! The Series 2 finale has landed. In this special Q&A episode, we tackle listener questions on everything from the performance of the Chinese Army to the sheer scale of American involvement in the theatre. A huge thank you to everyone who wrote in! #ForgottenWarPod #WW2History #QandA

Today’s favourite #warart Details in ALT @karljames1945.bsky.social

Coming soon to the Casemate Illustrated series, "Midget Submarines 1939–45" explores the World War II naval raids using midget submarines. 💻️: https://tinyurl.com/4978dzp5 #wwII #navalhistory #militaryhistory

Today's favourite #warart Vale Waterhen HMAS Waterhen sinking the day after being struck by Axis aircraft off Sollum. @karljames1945.bsky.social

#OTD in 1941 General Bortolo Zambon, GOC Brescia division, relinquished his command. He had fought under Rommel for all of the latter’s battles and led his division during the siege of Tobruk. @karljames1945.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social @ima-naval-history.bsky.social

Stanning Joshua Chamberlain today because sometimes to save the Union you need a pointy-headed college professor with eccentric grooming

#OTD in 1941 12 Field Coy R.E. started a new war diary, settling in for another month of the siege of Tobruk. @ubiquevir.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social rommelsriposte.com/2021/11/05/1...

Family movie night 🦈

Sad news for Alexander Fax Booksellers in Mawson ACT. We're closing the shop. But not the business! We will continue to sell quality military books online and by mailorder to subscribers. If you are local, pop into the shop and check out the bargains. 50% off most; exceptions bargain bins & shelves.

This week at the Australian War Memorial, we had Michael Veitch present on Borneo, I’ve just finished the book 📖 It’s an easy read & a good introduction to the I Aust Corps operations on Borneo in 1945. #WehaveWays #HistBookChat

Come and study with us! It'll be fun! Applications are open for the Australian War Memorial Summer Scholars program, to be held in Canberra next Jan-Feb. Apply here: www.awm.gov.au/get-involved...

On today at the @AWMemorial. It’s not too to come along this afternoon for what will be a great #WWII talk. #WeHaveWays #HistBookChat

This #BookFriday don’t forget to book your free tickets for next week’s author talk at the @AWMemorial! Join us as Michael Veitch discusses his latest 📖 on the Borneo campaigns in 1945. See: awm.gov.au/author-talk-mi… #WeHaveWaysy#WWIIII

London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s colonies www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This #BookFriday, the last of my recent🏖️reads, Captain Andrew Wilson's ripping memoir as a troop commander in Churchill flamethrower tanks in NW Europe & this brief history of Samurai & medieval Japan, beautifully published by @TuttleBooks 📚 #HistBookChat

This #BookFriday, the last of my recent🏖️reads, Captain Andrew Wilson's ripping memoir as a troop commander in Churchill flamethrower tanks in NW Europe & this brief history of Samurai & medieval Japan, beautifully published by Tuttle 📚

Today’s favourite #warart “Anti-aircraft defences, Marsa Matruh” (1941) #desertwar #ww2 #militaryhistory @karljames1945.bsky.social @thehistoryguy.bsky.social @alanallport.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social

Aug 20, 1950 Australian born Major Benjamin Carlin and his wife yesterday reached the island of Flores, in the Azores, in their amphibious jeep. They had been missing for more than a week. The Carlins left Nova Scotia on July 19 in an attempt to cross the Atlantic in their 17ft converted jeep.

The Australian War Memorial's special #VPDay symposium "Interpreting Australia's Second World War: previewing Anzac Hall" is now online: www.youtube.com/live/P6vGj8_.... For more #WWII see, including author talks, see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t... #WeHaveWays #WWII #VJDay80

@karljames1945.bsky.social please keep an eye on this!

My latest article, “The Final Campaigns” about Australia’s controversial Pacific campaigns in 1944-45, is now available for free on the @AWMemorial’s new digital magazine WM: wm.awm.gov.au/read/final-c... So too are some of my older Wartime articles on #WWII. #WeHaveWays #VJDay80

Throughout the month of August 1941, the RAF put in a solid effort to allow the Axis to discover that their radio communications were being read. @rafhistorical.bsky.social @rafhistory.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social @smoorebofb1940.bsky.social @alanallport.bsky.social

Something a little different this week - Rob and I discuss the evacuation of Burma, so often overlooked or just a footnote to 1942, then look at some harrowing eyewitness accounts. Fascinating and harrowing in equal measure.

Using atomic bombs to end the Second World War was inevitable thehub.ca/2025/08/10/u...