The Library will be closed on Wednesday, April 25 for the Anzac Day public holiday. But your E-library is open 24/7.

Curiosity: In the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra there are 15 stained glass windows. Each shows a figure dressed in military uniform, and under each figure is a word which describes a quality displayed by Australians during wartime. One window features an infantryman wearing a trench mortar uniform. He represents all service men and women who have gained knowledge from enquiry, symbolised by an eye in the Egyptian style from which stream rays of light. This window bears the word Curiosity.

Dunkirk – The real story in photographs by Tim Lynch:  The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset. But in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force in France. Isolated from the rest of their allies, they faced insurmountable numbers of enemy troops. All was so very nearly lost, until the German land forces were given the surprise order by Adolf Hitler to halt briefly. Taking advantage of this unexpected but welcome turn of events, the British troops fled for the beaches of Dunkirk and fortified them while the Royal Navy dispatched almost 900 ships and boats to rescue British and Allied soldiers from the jaws of defeat. In all, over 300,000 men were evacuated, while 40,000 brave rearguard troops lost their freedom for the good of their allies.

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