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Wartime Magazine Issue 8

02 September 1999

Spring 1999

The Origins of the Boer War - Craig Wilcox

  • Portable Document Formatoriginsboer1.pdf [196.5 kB PDF]

The Blockhouse, El Alamein - Mark Johnston

  • Portable Document Formatblockhouse1.pdf [642.3 kB PDF]

Getting our knees brown: exploring the El Alamein battlefield - Peter Stanley

  • Portable Document Formatkneesbrown1.pdf [212.2 kB PDF]

Magnificent Menace: 88 mm guns and Australians at El Alamein - Mark Johnston and David Pearson

  • Portable Document Formatmachinesofwar0.pdf [139.5 kB PDF]

Diana - David Pearson

  • Portable Document Formatdiana0.pdf [58.1 kB PDF]

The great Harry Murray - David Chalk

  • Portable Document Formatharrymurray0.pdf [294.2 kB PDF]

Bendigo's original ANZAC - Ross McMullin

  • Portable Document Formatbendigo0.pdf [364 kB PDF]

Iso Rae in Etaples: another perspective of war - Betty Snowden

  • Portable Document Formatisorae0.pdf [401 kB PDF]

Then and now: a camera on the Western Front - Peter Burness

  • Portable Document Formatthennow0.pdf [178.8 kB PDF]

The day the bombs fell - Vanessa Crowdey

  • Portable Document Formatdaybombsfell0-1.pdf [294.7 kB PDF]

Public Enemy Number One - fifty years later - Peter Edwards

  • Portable Document Formatpublicenemy0.pdf [283.5 kB PDF]

The Ode - is it "condemn" or "contemn"? - Robert Pounds

  • Portable Document Formatode0.pdf [55.1 kB PDF]

Know your warships! Part 3 - Richard Pelvin with Robert Barby

  • Portable Document Formatwarships0-1.pdf [148.8 kB PDF]

AWM news

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Book review

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Letters

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Last updated: 30 March 2021

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