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Stay-Alive Runs Away
1954 Kenya Jonas Forbes in the colonial police battles vs. Mau Mau.. Askari Stay-Alive Johnson witnesses a massacre but deserts rather than give evidence. Jonas has to bring him back but the tale isn’t over by a long way, especially when love and jealousy play their parts.
The Tely 10
First run in 1922, The Telegram 10 mile road race initiated by The Evening Telegram has become Newfoundland's most poplular long-distance road race.
Beyond The Broken Years
What does Australia’s military history reveal about us? In Beyond The Broken Years – fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage’s classic on World War One soldiers, was published – provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it’s vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created. By whom, how and with what consequences. Stanley explores military history and the storytellers – from historians Charles Bean, Henry Reynolds, Joan Beaumont and David Horner to ‘’storians’ Peter FitzSimons and Les Carlyon. And grapples with what it means to write military history, its different approaches, the rise of popular writers and much more. He ask...
Scrambling South
In the tensions following the 1956 Suez crisis Jonas Forbes is sent to Egypt to get a cypher-code hidden by a Mossad agent in the temple of Karnak. despite mixed support at home, he succeeds but is hunted by both the Mukhabarat and Mossad. helped by gypsies he flees into the desert but must overcome treachery and kidnap before he reaches safety in Sudan. a fast-paced thriller with attention to historical detail.
They Came to Murramarang
Bruce Hamon’s They Came to Murramarang, first published in 1994, provides a unique combination of local history and personal recollections from a writer who witnessed the transformation of the Murramarang region from the timber era to modern times. This new edition retains the original character of Bruce’s engaging prose with additional chapters relating to Bruce’s life, the writing of the book, the Indigenous history of the region and the transformation of the area since the book was written. The book has also been enhanced by the insertion of additional photographs.
Cockatoo Island
John Jeremy pays tribute to Sydney Harbour's largest and by far most fascinating island in this new edition ofCockatoo Island: Sydney’s Historic Dockyard.The book focuses on the industrial history of Cockatoo Island and is the most detailed account of the dockyard, its administration and activities yet written. It also provides fascinating detail and spectacular archival photography of Sydney Harbour's industrial heart.
A Military History of Victoria, Australia 1803-1945
This is a case study of possibly the most complex defensive system in Australia between 1803 and 1945. Defending Victoria was such a wide ranging and demanding task that the colony, and later the state, of Victoria was known as the Gibraltar of the South. This book fills a major gap in Australian military and naval history. Using Victoria as a case study, the book shows how defence developed from the idea of a basic sand fort emanating from a fear of French invasion during the early 19th century, into a complex, modern three-dimensional defensive system incorporating air, land and sea defences as well as radar and secret defence technology by the 1940s. The book is not a simple narration of facts and events, but a substantial addition to Australian military history, on account of its extensive analysis of the political, social, economic and technological factors which impacted defence over many decades of the 19th century.
Dare Call It Treason
1956 UK. Stalinists plot to murder the new Soviet leaders, Bulganin and Khrushchev, visiting Britain. But their agent a themselves as much as their enemies. Jonas Forbes, hired to protect the visiting leaders, soon finds himself with a personal score to settle. He is both helped and hindered by the rival Soviet organisations, the GRU and the KGB, as well as the British police. A lightly-written thriller concentrating on historical accuracy.
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