A history of postcolonial Uganda

Kenneth Easton Cook said he had unmasked a network of Australians preparing to sell out their country to the Japanese. His lies changed Australian history.

(1910–2000)

From the Frontlines of Global Diplomacy: A Maverick’s Memoir of Truth Speaking to Power

Australian reportage on a people in arms

Review of Geoff Raby’s book about why the future is being decided in Central Asia.

A Counterintelligence Informant in Wartime Sydney

Paul de Vries reviews Shanghai Demimondaine in JAPANForward

Review of a comprehensive guide to prosecuting war criminals

An Australian painter in war-torn Sri Lanka

Review of Sean Turnell’s ‘An Unlikely Prisoner’, his account of two year’s imprisonment in Myanmar.

Discussion with Paul French about my biography of Lorraine Murray, the real life model for the heroine of Emily Hahn’s novel.

Review of Brett Mason’s ‘Saving Lieutenant Kennedy’, the story of JFK’s WWII rescue

Lorraine Murray in Brisbane, 1943

The Battle of Shanghai: 27 October 1937

Article in the Australian Financial Review

The Somerset Maugham effect

Nick Hordern interviewed on ABC radio

LP Hartley’s The Go-Between as a palimpsest

Lorraine Murray and the Nazi Collaborator

or, The Real Miss Jill

Nick Hordern reviews ‘War and Punishment’ by Mikhail Zygar and ‘Russia’s War against Ukraine’ by Mark Edele.

Four editions of Emily Hahn’s novel based on the life of Lorraine Murray

A crime syndicate in 1940s Australia

Death and Poetry in Wartime Sydney

Nick Hordern reviews Serhii Rudenko’s biography of the Ukrainian President