This is a dramatic suspenseful and splendidly written story of Australians at war. The author tells the story of his early years on the Buronga Ridge near Mildura, of his army service with the...
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Author: HARRIS, A.M.Summary:
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Author: HARRIS, A.M.Summary:
After three years of war, the tall man knew the shell-pocked ground in Korea as well as he knew the Blue Mountains of his home outside Sydney. The tall man had to organize more missions, to send...
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Author: NEGUS, GeorgeSummary:
In the words of the author, this book or journal is a series of personal experiences, opinions, observations, interviews, conversations, research and reactions noted and recorded in the course of...
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Author: SILVER, Lynette RamsaySummary:
Story of WWII Sandakan Prisoner of war camp from which only 6 Australians survived. Also details a bungled rescue attempt, where almost all the men died because of mistakes made within the senior...
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Author: ALLBEURY, TedSummary:
John Rennie is an uncomprimising, principled man. When his Intelligence superiors order him to lie, to pervert, to execute he does it because his country's security demands it. That is,...
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Author: Clarke, BrendaSummary:
The Reads are respectable Nonconformist shopkeepers; the Hunnicutts dark and stormy High Church landowners. But love and greed constantly cross the battle lines, adding new disputes to the old...
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Author: MANDELA, NelsonSummary:
Memoirs of the President of the African National Congress and leader of the anti-Apartheid movement.
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Author: MAYNE, HenrieSummary:
A study of a man in glorious retreat from the absurdities of life, set against a background of social manners and international upheaval, from the colonial heyday of the Raj in the 1890s to the...
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Author: CROWLEY, F. KSummary:
Documents Forrest's career as inland explorer, public servant and politician. "After being actively involved in the drafting of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Sir...
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Author: GODDARD, RobertSummary:
Lance Bradley's old friend Rupert Alder has vanished leaving a trail of chaos behind him. Lance decides it's too risky to get involved but, finding he is already involved, soon realises...
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Author: REILLY, MatthewSummary:
At a remote ice station in Antarctica, a team of US scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something buried deep within the coastal ice shelf. Led by the enigmatic Lieut. Shane...
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Author: HIGGINS, JackSummary:
It's a trip that agent Paul Chavasse will never forget. His destination: the isolated republic of Albania on the Adriatic coast, at a time when the regime is at its most repressive and the...
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Author: GREGSON, J. MSummary:
New Year's Eve is, traditionally, a time of hope and dreams for the year ahead. But for 19 year-old Hannah Woodgate, it is to be her last. She is the latest victim of the Lancashire leopard....
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Author: STEWART, SallySummary:
Fragile, quietly pretty Jane Hamilton is tougher than she looks. She has learned about men the hard way, from an absentee father. So when brash New York publisher Jerome Randall strides into her...
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Author: SMITH, WilburSummary:
Set in the dawn of the 18th century in England, East Africa and Arabia, Monsoon takes over where Birds of Prey left off and follows the lives of the three sons of Hal Courteney. Like their father...