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The Life and Adventures of Morrison of China
'Morrison was the first Australian to break into Fleet Street's elite corps of foreign correspondents. Everyone who followed owes him an enormous debt. He set the benchmark: courage, truthfulness and the need to be there, face to face. His amazing life, splendidly and succinctly told, is an inspiration. If Morrison has been largely forgotten, this book will change that forever.' - Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty, a history of war correspondents This is the compelling story of 'Chinese Morrison', who bestrode continents, helped bring down a dynasty and chronicled his times so brilliantly that he not only wrote history but changed it as well. In 1882, at the age of 19, George E...
The Big Fella
The never-before-told story of BHP Billiton's global conquests, told by the key players. BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. The Big Fella: The rise and rise of BHP Billiton is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great bourses of the world. Based on more than 60 exclusive interviews, it rips away the superficial gloss to expose the political and industrial forces that really drive Big Business in the 21st century. In an investigative tour de force, authors Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin reveal the visions, the schemes, the...
Operation Rimau
Dr Peter Thompson is the Sydney Mayer Lecturer in Early American History at Oxford University. He lived in the USA for 10 years, taking his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania before spending four years as Lecturer in American History at Princeton.
Jacka VC
The remarkable life story of Albert Jacka - a true Australian war hero - the first Australian to be awarded a VC at Gallipoli who later became prominent in local government in Victoria.
Cudlipp's Circus
Award-winning Australian author Peter Thompson evokes the now-vanished world he encountered on joining 'Cudlipp's Circus' at the Daily Mirror in 1966. But Cudlipp's Circus is much more than a classic tale of newspaper life appealing to journalists and the general reader. It also examines the acquisition of press power and its abuse through the lives of the four newspaper barons for whom the author worked: Cecil King, Hugh Cudlipp, Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch. His portrait of Maxwell as a corporate psychopath rampaging through the lives of others has never been bettered Thompson also charts the fall of Maxwell's favourite daughter, Ghislaine Maxwell, from her first appearance at the Daily Mirror in 1984 to the denouement thirty-eight years later in a New York courtroom, where she faced charges of the sexual abuse of under-aged women.
The Private Lives of Mayfair
The richness of Mayfair's extraordinary history is brought to life in 26 engrossing chapters spanning almost 350 years from the Earl of Clarendon's sacking as Charles II's Lord Chancellor in 1667 to Lord Byron's disgrace in 1816 to the most famous concert in the history of rock music, The Beatles' farewell gig in January 1969 on the rooftop of 3 Savile Row, and beyond to the present day. The Private Lives of Mayfair contains a wealth of fascinating archival material, and no other book has attempted such a compelling study of the square mile bordered by Park Lane, Piccadilly, Regent Street and Oxford Street, and the people who inhabit it. Through its multiplicity of characters, scene-setting and incident, The Private Lives of Mayfair achieves what the Guardian's 'Author, Author' columnist Colin Thubron describes as 'the elusive concept of evoking the spirit of a place'.
Kill the Tiger
In the last months of 1944 a group of Australian and British commandos was selected for the biggest behind-the-scenes operation of the Pacific War. Their mission: to devastate Singapore Harbour by destroying the Japanese ships at anchor. Operation Rimau, Britain's last throw of the colonial dice in south-east Asia, was designed as a body blow to the Japanese and a signal to the world that she would reclaim her Eastern Empire. At the same time, Australia's wartime prime minister, John Curtin, had turned to America and her most decorated soldier, General Douglas MacArthus, for his country's salvation. KILL THE TIGER tells what really happened to the Rimau commandos from the very beginnings of the operation to their operation to their intense and courageous fighting in the South China Sea. And it names the men who betrayed them in their hour of need, and details the political double-dealing which for so many years hid the truth behind red tape and bureaucratic lies.
Pacific Fury
How Australia and her allies defeated the Japanese. Pearl Harbor; The Fall of Singapore; Curtin's Fight With Churchill; The Bombing Of Darwin; POW Camps; The Battle of Midway; Kokoda; Buna; Kamikaze Pilots; Hiroshima... These words alone are enough to convey the terror, courage and drama of the Pacific War, when the balance of power stood on a knife-edge and when the future of Australia was on the brink - threatened by Japanese aggression on the one hand and British deception on the other. After a conflict that took an unimaginable number of lives and ended with the unleashing of the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen, the Allies emerged victorious. Australia, however, was criticis...
War Babies
This is a compelling story of the intense bond between mother and son,its disturbance when the soldier father returns, an affectionate portrait ofBrisbane, and an intriguing family history from journalist and film-maker Robert Macklin.
