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Includes biographical note on Stan McCosker (1 leaf handwritten).
Masked Eden
Masked Eden is a story of love and beauty, gallantry, courage and betrayal. The wonderful pioneering spirit of Australians is seen -- often in co-operation with the New Guineans -- struggling with the incompetence and ignorance of a small elite in Canberra and Rabaul. The Fall of Rabaul to the Japanese in 1942 -- when over 1000 Australian civilians and soldiers were lost; the greatest purely Australian tragedy in history -- is, for the first time, fully examined using original material gathered from the nation's archives and the author's personal collection.
Tony Abbott and the Times of Revolution
2021 REVISED EDITION The author intertwines three themes: the character of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott as displayed in his fearless no-holds battle with the far-left radicals at Sydney University (1976-1980); what it means to be a philosophical conservative in a leftist world; and the author’s critique of the student rebellion and the radicalism driving it. The author lived through the tumultuous years of the 1960s and 1970s revolution. Tony Abbott becomes a vehicle through which he expresses his scathing critique of the student rebellion. In 2012, a passage in David Marr’s book POLITICAL ANIMAL: THE MAKING OF TONY ABBOTT caused uproar across Australia. Leftist Marr is an out-and-p...
Something Over There
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Lieutenant Martin's Letters
This book is a moving account of World War I through the eyes of a young soldier, Frederick William Scott Martin, a Queenslander whose life was drastically changed by conflict. His life was cut short in 1917 and his moving letters to his family back home reveal the hell of the trenches and also the lighter side of an officer's life. -- back cover.
Telling Pacific Lives
"This volume of essays is an exploration of the way in which scholars from different disciplines, standpoints and theoretical orientations attempt to write life stories in the Pacific. It is the product of a conference organised by the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in December 2005. The aim of the conference was to explore ways in which Pacific lives are read and constructed through a variety of media: films, fiction, faction, history under four overarching themes. The first, Framing Lives, sought to explore various ways of constructing a life from a classic western perspective of birth, formation, experiences and death of an individual to other ...
Penelope Taye
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