Reviews and Commentary

• November 2021 - Australian Policy & History - Dr Kate Ariotti reviews Private Ryan and The Lost Peace. Click here for article.
• June 2021 - Barrier Daily Truth - Neil Pigot reviews Private Ryan and The Lost Peace in "The journey of Broken Hill’s own Private Ryan". Click here for article.
• May 2021 - Honest History - David Stephens reviews Private Ryan and The Lost Peace in "Everyman as soldier: how men in suits in drawing rooms conned the people – and their families – into fighting". Click here for article.
• April 2021 - Late Night Live on ABC Radio Australia - Douglas Newton, Professor Peter Stanley and Jon Piccini discuss with host Philip Adams: the "Strength of Australia's historical anti-war sentiment". Click here for show.
• April 2021 - Religion and Ethics Report on ABC Radio Australia - Douglas Newton discusses his new book Private Ryan and the Lost Peace. Click here for show.
• April 2021 - Pearls and Irritiations - Tony Smith reviews Private Ryan and The Lost Peace. Click here for article.
• April 2021 - The Guardian - Paul Daley discusses Private Ryan and The Lost Peace in "The Anzac who spoke truth to power and called for an end to the war". Click here for article.
• December 2018 - Jack Wright's blog - British journalist Jack Wright discusses the work of historians Andreas Rose and Douglas Newton. Click here for the blog piece.
• November 2018 - Hope 103.2 - Douglas Newton discusses the Centenary of the Great War with Stephen O’Doherty, on “Open House” on Radio Hope 103.2. Click here for the interview.
• November 2018 - Radio Skid Row - Douglas Newton discusses with Colin Hesse, the Centenary of the Armistice. Click here for the interview.
• August 2017 – ABC Radio Australia – Douglas Newton discusses his forthcoming book, Saving Our Private Ryan, with Rebekah Lowe. Click here for interview.
• May 2016 – SBS TV Australia – Douglas Newton is featured in the documentary, Gallipoli: When Murdoch Went to War – Click here for video.
• 16 May 2016 – Honest History – David Stephens writes Douglas Newton confronts the really important questions about war. Click here for article.
• January 2016 – Peace & Change – Professor Sandi Cooper reviews The Darkest Days. Click here for review.
• December 2015 – Gallipoli Centenary Peace Campaign – Public Forum on WW1, the case of Father Jerger and Civil Liberties. Click here for review of presentations.
• July 2015 – New Left Review – Alexander Zevin writes an extended review of The Darkest Days, in  “The Snuffer of Lamps”, New Left Review, July-August 2015, pp. 127-140. Click here for article.
• from October, 2014 – Edinburgh University – Douglas Newton’s lecture on “Hard Truths About Britain’s Choice for War in 1914”, for Edinburgh University History Faculty, Wednesday 1 October, 2014. Click here for podcast recording.
• May, 2015 – New Zealand International Review, Vol. 40, No. 3 (May/June 2015) – Ian McGibbon reviews Hell-Bent.
• April 29, 2015 – GCPC – Gallipoli and Anzac after 100 years. Click here for video.
• April 25, 2015 – BBC2 – Featured within the documentary, Gallipoli: When Murdoch Went to War. Click here to watch (UK only)
• April 25, 2015 – The Conversation – ”The past is not sacred: the ‘history wars’ over Anzac” by Peter Cochrane. Click here for article.
• April 24, 2015 – Sydney Review of Books – Greg Lockhart reviews and discusses Douglas Newton’s Hell-Bent. Click here for article.
• April 18, 2015 – Solidarity – Book Review of Hell-Bent. Click here for review.
• April 16, 2015 – SkidRowFM – Historian Douglas Newton discusses the Gallipoli Commemoration and Australia’s leap into WW1. Click here for audio of the interview.
• April 15, 2015 – Ashfield Library – Authors at Ashfield podcast. Click here for audio.
• February 26, 2015 – 4ZZZ FM – 4ZZZ Book Club Interview with Douglas Newton. Click here for audio of the interview.
• January, 2015 – Australian Book Review – ‘Like a pilot fish to a shark’. Carolyn Holbrook reviews Douglas Newton’s Hell-Bent. Click here for article.
• January, 2015 – Rod Olsen / Honest History – Rod Olsen reviews Hell-Bent at Honest History. Click here for article.
• Dec 22, 2014 – Gwyn Griffiths – The Darkest Days chosen as Gwyn Griffith’s book of the year. Click here for full book round up.
• Dec 7, 2014 – Tom Kenneally in the Sydney Morning Herald – Australian writers pick the best books of 2014. Click here for article.
• Dec 7, 2014 – Frank Bongiorno – Speech from the book launch of Hell-Bent in Canberra, Australia. Click here for speech.
• Nov 22, 2014 – Ethical Record UK – Radical Opposition to World War One. Click here for article.
• Nov 13, 2014 – John Gittings. – Who Started The First World War? Published in The Spokesman. Click here for article.
• Nov 7, 2014 – Counterfire – Book review of The Darkest Days. Click here for review.
• Oct 27, 2014 – Bristol Festival of Ideas. – Audio recording of talk by Douglas Newton at the Bristol Festival of Ideas. Click here for audio.
• Oct 11, 2014 – John Gittings. – Talk at the Peace History Conference, 2014, at the Imperial War Museum, London. Click here for edited text of speech.
• Sep 24, 2014 – Open Democracy – A review of Douglas Newton’s The Darkest Days by Open Democracy’s Chairman, David Elstein. Click here for article.
• Sep 23, 2014 – The Fix Magazine – A review of Douglas Newton at the Bristol Festival of Idea. Click here for article.
• Sep 19, 2014 – The Guardian – A review of Douglas Newton’s The Darkest Days by Christopher Clark. Click here for article.
• Aug 26, 2014 – Giles MacDonogh – Two War Books, A review of Douglas Newton’s The Darkest Days. Click here for article.
• Aug 21, 2014 – The Times Higher Education Supplement – A review of Douglas Newton’s The Darkest Days. Click here for article.
• Aug 5, 2014 – BBC Radio Wales – Interview with Jason Mohammad on BBC Wales. Click here for mp3 of interview.
• Aug 4, 2014 – London’s Big Conversation. Interview on London’s Big conversation with John Stapleton. Click here for mp3 of interview.
• Aug 4, 2014 – London Review Bookshop – Downloadable podcast of talk with Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers. Click here for podcast.
• Aug 4, 2014 – The Australian – A Lesson Writ Large in Blood. Click here for Article.
• Aug 4, 2014 – Peter Hitchens / Mail on Sunday – How the Lights Went Out All Over Europe, But Did They Need to Here? – Click here for Article.
• Aug 2, 2014 – The Saturday Paper (Australia) – Book review of Hell-Bent by Douglas Newton. Click here for article.
• Aug 1, 2014 – ABC Australia – PM with Mark Colvin – Interview with Mark Colvin, “New book reflects on Australia’s influence on Britain’s entry into WWI”.
  • Click Here for transcript.
  • Click here to download interview (from ABC).
  • Click here to download extended interview (from ABC).​
• July 29, 2014 – TeleSur – Colonial Realities Behind the First World War. Click here for article.
• July 26, 2014 – The Guardian – Untold Stories of The War, including article by Douglas Newton. Click here for article.
• July 21, 2014 – Peter Hitchens / Mail on Sunday –  featuring a review of Douglas Newton’s The Darkest Days. Click here for article.
• July 17, 2014 – The Independent – Douglas Newton’s The Darkest Days was included in the Independent’s book round-up “The Great War non-fiction: How Europe stumbled into suicide in 1914” by Guy Keleny, the Independent’s letters editor. Click here for article.
• John Gittings – How Britain was pushed into war. Click here for article.
• Weekly Worker – WWI: How did it all happen? Click here for article.
• LibCom.org – The truth behind Britain’s rush to war, 1914. Click here for article.
• The World is My Country – Choosing War. Click here for article.