Book Reviews

Wakeling has produced a very accessible and accurate exploration of Australia's involvement in the war crimes trials in the Pacific at the end of WWII. He training in law and clear writing style help the interested layperson to comprehend the various complicated legal processes and documents that formed the bases for these trials.

It is always rewarding to read a book that opens one's eyes to complex events in Australia's history that were previously only dimly understood.  Red Zone Bagdad by Colonel Marcus Fielding is one such work. It recounts the author's nine-month tour of duty in Baghdad during final stages of the Iraq War (2003-2009), where he served as a senior planning officer within the headquarters of the Multi-National Force-Iraq.

Having spent much of the past twenty years commuting to Melbourne on the Bendigo train line - firstly from Bendigo, later from Woodend - I was pleased to see the publication of a book devoted to its construction.