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Peter Monteath

Fighters in the Shadows: A new history of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Peter Monteath reviews 'Fighters in the Shadows: A new history of the French Resistance' by Robert Gildea

Charles de Gaulle remains, for many, the quintessence of Gallic defiance through the dark years of World War II. Not only did he symbolise the famed resistance, he ...

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P.O.W.: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler’s Reich by Peter Monteath

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July–August 2011, no. 333

Of the fate of Australian prisoners of war in the hands of the Japanese during World War II, the literature – memoir, fiction, history – is voluminous. There were 21,652 of them, of whom thirty-five per cent, or 7780, perished. A good deal has also been written of enemy prisoners – Japanese, German, Italian – who were held in camps in this country, and in pa ...