My Favourite Teacher

"My Favourite Teacher is designed to highlight the pivotal role of our teachers in Australian society, to help raise their status and to encourage the best and brightest to enter the profession.
The teachers celebrated between these covers – whether erudite, passionate, flamboyant, earnest, disciplinarian or free-spirited- had an enduring impact on the lives of their students.

Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9781742231624

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SAS Sniper

"In SAS Sniper, Rob Maylor takes us inside the closed world of the Australian Special Forces - it's tough to get in, but the fighting that follows is even tougher
Royal Marine...SAS marksman...Elite soldier.

Publisher: Hachette
ISBN: 9780733624957

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The Big Fella

"The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd, or BHP, is part of Australia's DNA, yet it remains an enigma.
Here for the first time is the full, compelling story of how BHP rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian outback to become, in conjunction with its partner Billiton, the biggest miner in the world today.

Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 9781741667103

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Kevin Rudd

The official biographer of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd , Robert Macklin's first edition of Kevin Rudd: The Biography sold out in four months. The new edition incorporates the election campaign - including election night in which the author spent with the Rudd family - together with a long conversation between author and PM in his Canberra office.

Publisher: Penguin Australia
ISBN-13: 9780670072378

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Jacka VC Australian Hero

"Everyone who knows the facts knows that Jacka won the Victoria Cross three times." - C.E.W. Bean, official Australian war historian.
Albert Jacka was the people's hero of the Great War. In 1919 he returned to a triumphant welcome as thousands lined the streets to cheer the first Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli.

Publisher: Allen and Unwin
ISBN: 9781741148305

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Fire in the Blood

One hundred and fifty years ago, Frank Gardiner rose from nowhere to become the most famous outlaw in the country. His gang included Ben Hall, Johnny Gilbert and a team of desperados who brought large tracts of inland New South Wales to the brink of anarchy. Yet he boasted that he never hurt a woman or ever committed a mean or petty act.

Publisher: Allen and Unwin
ISBN: 9781741148305

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The Life and Adventures of Morrison of China

Morrison of China is the compelling story of 'Morrison of Peking', 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.

Publisher: Allen and Unwin
ISBN: 9781741753516

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War Babies

In War Babies, Robert Macklin is amusingly true to the absurd comedy of growing up. But that is only one dimension of what is ultimately a moving and representative story that conveys the unique uncertainties and insecurities of the generation born in the shadow of World War II.

Publisher: Pandanus books
ISBN: 9781740760904

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Keep Off The Skyline

Escaping a violent home life, Private Ron Cashman had just turned 19 when he was pitched into the front line of the Korean War. Over the next two years he fought with the diggers in one of the pivotal wars of the twentieth century. Cashman took part in desperate hand-to-hand combat, was wounded three times and won the Military Medal for saving the lives of three mates.

Publisher: Jon Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 978-1-74031-083-3

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Kill The Tiger

In the last few months of 1944 a group of British and Australian commandos set off on the biggest behind-the-lines operation of the Pacific War. Their mission: to devastate Singapore Harbour by destroying the Japanese ships at anchor. Operation Rimau was designed as a body blow to the Japanese but it ended in disaster.

The Battle of Brisbane

For two days in November 1942, the city of Brisbane became a war zone when Australian servicemen attacked American troops. At the height of savage fighting on Thanksgiving Day, an American military policeman shot dead an Australian war hero and wounded six other soldiers and a civilian.

Bravest

How some of Australia's greatest war heroes won their medals
Only 96 Australians have been awarded the VC - and 14 The George Cross - in conflicts from the Boer War to Vietnam.

Publisher: Allen and Unwin
ISBN: 9781741148824

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