All posts tagged "WWI"
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1.9KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: A Stitch In Time: A Knitting Cabaret
A Stitch In Time is a terrific cabaret of knitting songs and quirky facts from WWI and WWII, researched, developed and presented by the Canadian singer, Melanie Gall
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1.9KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Anzac Biscuits, by Allison Reynolds
A fascinating culinary history of one of Australia’s iconic foods, taking us around Australia, New Zealand and England, through recipe books, family treasures, letters to and from soldiers in WWI, photographs and anecdotes to discover the origins of our iconic Anzac biscuit.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Captured Lives, by Peter Monteath
Peer behind the barbed wire drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security during the two world wars. Civilians from enemy nations, even if born in Australia, were subjects of suspicion and locked away in internment camps as prisoners-of-war, some shipped from the other side of the world.
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Arts
Theatre Review: 1918: The Untold Story
With the upcoming anniversary of World War One this is a timely production and covering an oft-forgot section of the people who suffered through those dark days. Based firmly in the Adelaide Hills it reminds us of the difficulties faced not only by the men who marched away but also those who were left behind.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Missing in Action, by Marianne van Velzen
A moving and fascinating account of the gruesome post-WWI search for some of the 45,000 Australians who had died in France and Belgium, in order to bring closure to families and to provide the fallen with a fitting burial.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress, by David Olusoga
Based on the BBC television series, Civilisations, historian, television presenter and author David Olusoga presents a look at the two-way interaction of first contact with old civilisations, and how art has represented progress through the ages.
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897ArtsTheatre Review: Private Peaceful
Private Peaceful, is adapted from the novel by Michael Murpurgo and through reminiscences tells the story of the life of a young WWI soldier, on the last night of his life.
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1.2KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: The Unknown Soldier
Jack is a member of the military brigade that stayed on in France and Belgium for several years after the Armistice to recover bodies and body parts, identify them if possible, and give them honourable burial or reburial.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Young Hitler: The Making of The Führer, by Paul Ham
A concise and well-researched biography on the early life of Adolf Hitler, from his closeness to his mother, to his failed attempt as an artist, to war.
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738Books & LiteratureBook Review: South Australia on the Eve of War, edited by M Oppenheimer, et al
A collection of essays providing insight into what South Australia was like just before WWI written in conjunction with History SA & Flinders University to mark the centenary of the beginning of the war.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Young Digger, by Anthony Hill
The true story of an orphan French boy who turned up on Christmas Day 1918 in the mess of No.4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corp in Bickendorf, Germany.
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1.2KFilm & TVFrench Film Festival Review: Captain Conan
Classic war film Captain Conan follows its titular character as he leads a commando squad in night-time raids on the enemy during WWI only to have to fight another battle in the law courts.
