SAS: Phantoms of War: A History of the Australian Special Air Service
Allen & Unwin, $45 pb, 596 pp
Chased by the Sun: Courageous Australians in Bomber Command in Word War II
ABC Books, $32.95 pb, 328 pp
Lonely War
The Italian historian Giambattista Vico once observed that historical knowledge is less like knowing the facts of things and more like knowing what it is to experience them. Good social history fits Vico’s description. Its power lies in the detail. The paradox of social history is that the apparently prosaic details of the everyday lives of a group of people can become vivid and tantalising, and provide an imaginative experience of those lives.
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SAS: Phantoms of War: A History of the Australian Special Air Service
by David Horner
Allen & Unwin, $45 pb, 596 pp
Chased by the Sun: Courageous Australians in Bomber Command in Word War II
by Hank Nelson
ABC Books, $32.95 pb, 328 pp
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