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    Military history Pacific Fury 

 

 

                       

 

Published in July 2008 by Random House Australia

 

Review

"A valuable general account of an enormous and complex subject which provides an excellent starting point for developing an appreciation of the Pacific War and of Australia's part in it"

                                                                    Australian Literary Review

 

                         

                                 The Sword and the Cross

                               Two of the dramatic photographs in Pacific Fury illustrating

                                   the cruelty and the compassion of the Pacific conflict     

             

  
        

Eyewitnesses in Pacific Fury: Alexander Roberts as an RAAF pilot and, bearded, as air liaison officer with the Chindits in Burma; Catherine 'Kay' Cotterman, prisoner of the Japanese in Manila; and William 'Bill' Macauley, prisoner of the Japanese in Hong Kong

                                  

Amazing Australian: Beryl Stevenson (nee Beryl Spiers and later Beryl Daley) was a young shorthand writer from New South Wales who served as secretary to two British generals in Singapore and Java and later worked for General George Brett in Melbourne and General George Kenney in Brisbane, Port Moresby, Hollandia and the Philippines. She was commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States Army and rose to the rank of major.

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ISBN: 9781741667080
1741667089
Format: Hardback, 548 pages, plus 32 pages of photographs
Imprint: William Heinemann Au
RRP: $54.95
Release: 01/07/08
Subject: Military/War

                

Burma Railway hero Major James 'Jake' Jacobs of the 2nd AIF; Lieutenant-Commander Mackenzie Gregory of the RAN (who was on the bridge of HMAS Canberra when she was attacked by the Japanese in the Battle of Savo Island), and Flight Lieutenant Rex T. Barber of the USAAF (the pilot who killed Admiral Yamamoto in mid-air)... just three of the dozens of vivid stories told in Pacific Fury

 

  

THE BATTLE FOR SINGAPORE 

The True Story of Britain's Greatest Military Disaster 

Peter Thompson - Portrait Books £20

Published in August 2005 The fall of Singapore to the Japanese Army on the 15 February 1942 remains one of the darkest days in the history of the British Empire - and still, 60 years after Singapore's liberation, a subject of enduring fascination....  www.portraitbooks.com

Review:

"The latest and perhaps the most readable account... stylishly pacy, dramatic and vivid... will hook the most casual of readers" - SOLDIER Magazine.

         

General Arthur Percival, ill-fated British commanding officer in Singapore, Olga and Maisie Prout, the brave sisters who defied the Japanese during the occupation of the island colony and Captain William 'Bill' Drower, the man the Japanese couldn't kill. Their dramatic stories are told in The Battle for Singapore

                       New paperback edition released July 2007

 

  

KEEP OFF THE SKYLINE

   

Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin

Published in April 2004, Keep off the Skyline is an account of Private Ron Cashman and the little-known experiences of several thousand Australian infantrymen who fought in the Korean War...click for more

 

  

                             MORRISON OF CHINA    

                                  

                                             

     Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin

Published in December 2007  

Originally published as The Man Who Died Twice, 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 Ernest Morrison's strong sense of courage and devotion to reporting the truth led him to expose the Australian Kanaka slave trade. It marked the beginning of what was to be an illustrious career. In the decades that followed, Morrison achieved international fame for his work as a correspondent for the London Times in the decadent and dangerous Chinese capital of Peking, not least when he helped to organise the defence of the legations during the 55-day siege of the Boxer Uprising. Then, as adviser to the fledgling Chinese Government, he was a pivotal figure in the fall of the last Emperor and the birth of the Chinese Republic.

 

 
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