Wartime magazine issue 82

Wartime Magazine (Autumn 2018) - 1918 The final year

Featured articles:

• Saving Amiens by Peter Burness. The 9th Brigade stemmed a German counter-attack at First Villers-Bretonneux.
• The inner Monash by Peter Pedersen. There was more to Australia's greatest general than success on the battlefield.
• The beginning of the end by Hew Strachan. Events in motion by 1918 moved the war to a faster end than expected.
• The "obscene peace" of 1918 by David Sutton. Eight months before the Armistice of November 1918, Germany struck a crucial deal with Russia.
• The last roll of the dice by Steven R. Welch. Ludendorff's brilliant tactics were not enough in the German spring offensives of 1918.
• Nurses on the Western Front by Emma Campbell. Innovation, efficiency and courage underpinned the role of these women.
• The vigil of Empire by Thomas Rogers. Poetry shows that Australians joined the fight in South Africa in support of the British Empire.
• Britain's invasion nightmare by David G. Morgan-Owen. How popular fear of invasion had a significant effect on British preparations for war before 1914.
• Australia's Largest Single War Trophy by Shane Casey
• "They'll come looking for you" by Ashley Ekins. The first enemy attack on Fire Support Base Coral in May 1968 could have ended in disaster.
• Plus regular features including Reflections, Mail Call and Book Reviews.