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Ed. Rear Admiral James Goldrick AO CSC RAN (Retired) (1958–2023) was a towering figure in Australian and international naval thought – a commander at sea and ashore, a scholar of maritime history, and a teacher whose influence reshaped generations of naval professionals. His life’s work bridged the helm and the classroom, the bridge and the seminar room, the Royal Australian Navy, and its partners around the world. Given the breadth of his influence across command, education, and maritime thought, this volume seeks to consolidate and extend that legacy through critical reflection.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a new biography of Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon.

Ed. Through an imagined Socratic dialogue the author conveys to the younger generation the heroism of Shackleton’s rescue of the Endurance crew in August 1916. A 20 minute read.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book originally published in 2014, which provides a biography of Pearl Witherington, who served in the SOE during the Second World War.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a biography of Hideki Tojo, the infamous Japanese military officer then prime minister, and war criminal.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book exploring the letters of Admiral Sir Bryan Godfrey-Fausset as a midshipman in the Victorian Royal Navy.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a new biography of Admiral Raymond Spruance, whose “achievement is not merely to reconstruct Admiral Raymond A. Spruance’s operational record, but to illuminate a deeper and more unsettling truth: that victory in industrial war may depend less on boldness than on restraint, less on charisma than on intellect, and less on the commander as hero than on the commander as thinker.”

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a book recounting the history of a German family in the First World War, from which three sons served and died.

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a new biography of Commodore Michael Clapp, including both his role in the Falklands War and wider naval career.