Blast from the past! Alexander Fax Booksellers started out as a post office/bookshop in Hughes ACT in 1997. We didn't move to the Mawson shop til 2004. David's a bit grayer round the gills now! Don't forget: Mawson shop closing sale Wed-Sat 10.00-3.00, last two weeks.

New article! Moving & Staying: Wartime Escapes in Three Connected Colonies in South China, 1937–1945 by Helena F S Lopes Cardiff Uni History, Archaeology and Religion Neutral colonial territories Hong Kong, Guangzhouwan & Macau were key stopovers for those fleeing occupied China. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Where's Wally? I mean David (ie me). Hiding behind those boxes, putting more books on the shelves ahead of our Closing-the-Mawson-Shop forever, on Saturday 1 November. Time is running out for a bargain! Wed (today)-Sat 10.00-3.00. So, if you are in the neighbourhood, pop in soon!

Just a little reminder folks. We cease trading at the Mawson shop 3.00 1 November. Still plenty of stock available: military, fiction, aboriginal history, fishing, etc. So why not visit and help clear the shelves. BTW: we've have put our website inventory on vacation pro tem

Last day trading for Alexander Fax Booksellers at the Mawson, Canberra shop! Bag lots $25 & 50% off loose books (ie if you only want one or two or ... not enough/cheaper than a bag. Last change for these bargains: fiction, military, lots of other categories. 10-3. See you soon!

And the new articles continue to flow through! Gregor Kranjc's 'After the people were gone: rewilding Kočevje in the wake of the expulsion of Slovenia’s Gottscheer Germans, 1941-present' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thrilled with the number of article downloads so far this year: 50000+, & 15500+ in the last 4ter; significantly up on previous years! So pleased our articles are being read, downloaded into personal research archives, & cited. Keep reading & writing! tandfonline.com/loi/ywar20

CWGC has discovered trove of records re Kenya's forgotten soldiers. As well as recovering names & personal stories they'll search for remains. bbc.com/news/articles/… Stay tuned for our 2026 special issue: Bodies on the Move: History of Post-Conflict Exhumations & Commemorations.

New article! Open Access! The British POW experience in Hong Kong & Oeyama, Japan: the memoirs of Frank Evans & Joseph Henry Newman by Mark Newman. Comparison of memoirs highlights that survival also depended on luck & uncontrollable external factors. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

11 November 2025: we remember.

New article! 'The Lady Caged or the Princess Freed: Anne Noble & the Opium War from British& Japanese Perspectives' by Yang Liu & Arisa Nakagoe analyses Anne Noble’s story of captivity and shows how it transformed into contrasting political allegories. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

One of the contributors for our Photography, Colonialism & War Special issue commented on the stats: ‘They are very good viewing numbers! I guess it's a mixture of open-access, a sexy topic & a very good journal. We should all be proud!’ We certainly are. tandfonline.com/toc/ywar20/44/…

We talk with Australian military aviation historian and author, Kristen Alexander, about her latest book "Kriegies: the Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III". youtube.com/watch?v=NuUeIG…

Another new article! Leisure, violence, and the uncanny during the Rhodesian War by @Josiahbrownell looks at the evolution of white civilian society in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian War through the lens of its evolving paramilitarised consumer culture. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article! Mihály Boda's 'Protestant procedural just war thinking in the European religion-related wars of the early modern period'. Examines the work of Martin Luther, Gáspár Károli, Alexander Leighton and Mihály Tolnai. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Interested in Chinese Military History? We have a special collection authored by Western and Chinese scholars, spotlighting the depth of research into China’s military history. And we have just added four new articles! Check them out now! tandfonline.com/journals/ywar2…

2 great new #SWW articles, including "Towards a Nanjing narrative of the SWW in China: Navigating the stigma of an unspeakable past" by SWWRGNA member Jonathan and Douglas Delaney's "Matters of culture & military structure" on Australia, US, and Britain during the war. More:

This compelling biography (written by Australian historian Kristen Alexander) charts the extraordinary journey of Clive Robertson Caldwell, Australia's highest-scoring fighter ace of the Second World War. youtube.com/watch?v=HJ4jl2…

We're back! Our inventory has been reinstated online (alexanderfaxbooks.com.au) and our first post-shop e-catalogue is winging its way to subscribers now. Lots of good books on it!

I guess we shouldn't criticise when people spell AVM incorrectly - after all, some RAAF types couldn't get it right, like the 30 Squadron RAAF diarist 29 January 1943. Though, given Jones' popularity, it could have been a deliberate sly dig!