ENDURANCE by Tim Griffiths (Allan & Unwin, Sydney) Paperback: 368 pages Price: AUD$29.99   Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel   One famous photograph from World War I, well known to Australians, shows three diggers standing on duckboards, with the desolate remnants of Chateau Wood as the backdrop. The photographer was Frank Hurley, who shot such scenes of desolation after surviving Mawson’s and…

  WITHOUT YOU THERE IS NO US: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim (Crown, New York, 2015) Hardback: 304 pages Price: AUD$33.99   Reviewed by Terry Noone   Towards the end of this book Suki Kim comments on a trip to North Korea by a fellow journalist. She says that he will report on the “designated sliver…

  SOUL OF THE WEST: Christianity and the Great Tradition by David Daintree (Connor Court, Ballarat, 2015) Paperback: 90 pages Price: AUD$22.95   Reviewed by Peter Madison   Can one really know Western civilisation without understanding the part that Christianity has played in it? David Daintree answers firmly in the negative: “The West cannot be fully understood without a proper and informed appreciation…