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A rollicking good read, this elegant book is laced with humour and interesting anecdotes about life in the Australian Foreign Service. Bruce’s subsequent work - ‘Code Name: Sentinel’ - was the ‘stand-out’ entry in a field of 78 new titles, making him... WINNER, NEWSPAPER HOUSE LITERARY AWARD, AUSTRALIA, 2012.
WINNER NEWSPAPER HOUSE LITERARY AWARD 2012 Security arrangements for a visit to Australia by the US Secretary of State are made under the watchful eye of a beautiful Australian diplomat, stationed in Washington. As the jet carrying the US officials enters Australian air space, intelligence services intercept a coded message, setting alarm bells ringing and prompting a national security operation. All the signs point towards Islamic terrorists. Tom Grant, a rugged, highly decorated Australian SAS Commander just back from Afghanistan, leads a frantic mission to hunt down the suspects. As the gap between the fugitives and their hunters closes, a cruel twist emerges, challenging credulity and th...
Winner of the Maryland Historical Society's 2014 Sumner A. Parker Prize for the best genealogical work concerning Maryland families. The Sumner A. Parker Prize was established in 1946 by Dudrea Wagner Parker in memory of her late husband Sumner A Parker, a Baltimore architect and engineer. The prize is awarded each year by the Maryland Historical Society at its Annual Meeting in June. British Origins and Descendants Alexander, Bland, Beall, Berry, Blake, Bocock, Bond, Bonderant, Boone, Bowie, Bradford, BROOKE, Broome, Boyd, Butler, CABELL-HORSLEY, Cadwalader, Carroll, CAVANAGH, Chapman-Pearson, Clagett, Claiborne, COLE, Compton, Cullen, Denwood-Covington, DERING, Dorsey, Dunscomb, DuVal, Eltonhead, Elzey, Eversfield, Ewell, FIELDER, GANTT, Gittings, Glover, Graves, GREENFIELD, Hall, Hay, Heighe, Hilleary, Holdsworth, Keene, King, LEE-FEARN, Lewis, Mackall, Moore-Weems, Nelson, PARKER, Parrott, Perkins, Reynolds, Roberts, Semmes, Skinner, Smith (Highlands), Sprigg, STODDERT, Stoughton-Sloss, Tasker, Tryon, Waring, WEEMS, Wheeler, Wight (White), WILLIAMS, Winder, Wortham, Worthington, Wood, Wright, Young-Smith (Halls-Creek), with 57 Ancestral British Pedigrees.
A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.
Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants Harrison Dwight Cavanagh First edition awarded the Sumner A. Parker Prize by the Maryland Historical Society in 2014. The second edition of this work features all descendants of Thomas Gantt I (b. Bullwick, N. Hants; to Md. 1654; d. Calvert Co. 1692) and Ann Fielder (b. ca. 1662 Hants; d. PG Co. 1726) in the first six to ten generations. Ann Fielder is an important new addition to American colonial GATEWAY ancestors. Her parents, Capt. William Fielder (ca. 16201679) of Burrough Court Manor and Marjorie Cole (16281699) of Lyss Abbey, Hants, have proven multiple royal and magna carta ancestral lines; sixty extensive British pedigree...
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