Faced with an order that threatened the lives of sick men, their commander led them in a quintessential Australian response.

By Philippa TracyAustralian writer Richard Flanagan’s book won the Booker Prize in 2014 and was this summer screened as five-part series on the BBC. The title refers to a classic set of Japanese ...

It’s a highly unusual, potentially torturous position: to be left wondering if a character depicted to millions via brilliant ...

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...