Oliver Library Catalogue
The Anzac Portal: Australia and the Second World War
Australian War Memorial: Encyclopedia
Look up your particular topic here.
RSL NSW: Australian involvement in the Second World War
Australian War Memorial: Stolen Years - Australian Prisoners of War
The Anzac Portal: The Thai-Burma Railway and Hellfire Pass
Australian War Memorial: Prisoners of the Japanese
Click on the links at the bottom of the page.
Herald Sun: The Forgotten History of Australia's prisoner-of-war Camps
Digger History: POWs in OZ - Jews, Italians and Japanese
National Archives of Australia: Wartime Internment
Trove: Jap Prisoners' Diet Problem
Cowra Breakout
Anzac Day Commemoration Committee: The Cowra Breakout
ABC-NET: POWs and Families Mark the 70th Anniversary of the Cowra Breakout
Australian War Memorial: Cowra Breakout
NSW Education Dept.: Internees and POWs in Australia during WWII
Check on left column under 'Japanese Prisoners and the Cowra Breakout'
ABC News: Former Japanese prisoner of war shares lesson from the Cowra breakout, 75 years on
Australian War Memorial: The Prison Break at Cowra, August 1944
Australian Geographic: On This Day - Australia's Biggest Prison Breakout
Queensland Government: Homefront
State Library of Victoria: Home WWII
Education ABC.net: The Home Front - History
Click on 'Chapter 1', 'Chapter 2' etc.
Smithsonian: Complicated Leadup to Pearl Harbour
USC News: 75 Years Later, What is the Legacy of Pearl Harbour?
Institute of World Politics: The Impact of Pearl Harbour on America
Ohio & Miami Universities: December, 1941 - Pearl Harbour
Modern History Sourcebook: Pearl Harbour Attack Documents, 1941
Raymond Callahan, associate dean of the College of Arts and Science and the author of “The Worst Disaster: The Fall of Singapore,” has stated: “The fall of Singapore was a pivotal event with enormous consequences. Not only was it a military defeat, it was a shattering blow to Great Britain’s prestige and marked the decline of the Western era in Southeast Asia, which ended when the last helicopter left Saigon".
HistoryLearning site: The Fall of Singapore
National Museum of Australia: The Fall of Singapore
Australia Great War: The Fall of Singapore
ABC News: Fall of Singapore Anniversary: How a Military Defeat Changed Australia
The Battle of the Coral Sea is unique in the annals of naval history. It is the first battle in which enemy fleets never came within sight of one another. Instead, aircraft launched from carrier decks were sent out to attack the enemy with bombs and torpedoes.
Australian War Memorial: Battle of the Coral Sea
Royal Australian Navy: Battle of the Coral Sea
ANZAC Portal: Battle of the Coral Sea
Pacific War.org: Battle of the Coral Sea
Ohio University: Battle of the Coral Sea
University of San Diego: Battle of the Coral Sea
On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000 combatants died, including nearly 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 Americans, making Iwo Jima one of the costliest battles of World War II.
History.Net: Worth the Cost? Justification of the Iwo Jima Invasion
Quora: What Was the Significance of Iwo Jima?
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia: Isoroku Yamamoto
Darwin Military Museum: The Life and Death of Imperial Japanese Navy Admiral Yamamoto
New York Times: A Reluctant Enemy
World War II Database: Isoroku Yamamoto
Pacific War.org.au: Admiral Yamamoto Saves Australia
History.com: Isoroku Yamamoto - Japan's Mastermind of the Pearl Harbour Attack
Warfare History Network: Admiral Yamamoto - Japan's Naval War Leader
WarHistoryOnline: Japan's Deadly WWII Kamikaze
University of Chicago Press: Kamikaze Diaries - Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
Wesleyan University: Kamikaze Images
Check the links on the left for both American views and Japanese views of the Kamikaze pilots.
What was the significance of the Nanking Massacre in the context of World War II?
Why was the Japanese army so brutal?
Project Muse: The Rape of Nanking
University of California (Santa Barbera): The Rape of Nanking
Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
The ENTIRE collection of resources provided by the BBC Library can be searched on ONE single, powerful search platform, which retrieves print books, eBooks, database articles and websites. Click HERE for assistance.
History Hit: What Were the Long-Term Effects of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
National Security Archive: The Atomic Bomb and the End of WWII
Washington State University: History and Global Effects of Hiroshima/Nagasaki Bombings
Washington State University: The Effect of the Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Pacific War.org.au: Was the Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945 Justifiable?
BBC: Was it Right to Bomb Hiroshima?
Washington Post: Truman Was Right to Use the Bomb on Japan
HistoryExtra.com: Was the US Justified in Dropping the Bomb on Japan?
Georgetown University Library: Dropping the Atomic Bomb - Primary Sources
National Security Archive: The Atom Bomb and the End of WWII - A Collection of Primary Sources
National Archives of Australia
Specify World War II and click on 'Browse' to access a range of primary sources including:
Cablegram from Curtin to Churchill about the defence of Singapore – 17 January 1942
Churchill on the return of Australian troops to defend Australia – 27 January 1942