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Robert Macklin was born in Queensland where he was educated at Ironside School, Brisbane Grammar and the University of Queensland. He worked as a Jackaroo on a sheep and cattle property then as a roustabout in a shearing team before joining The Courier-Mail as a cadet journalist.
Later he moved to Melbourne and Canberra where he worked in the Parliamentary Press Gallery for The Age and then as Press Secretary to Sir John McEwen during his Prime Ministership...read more»
Seventy years ago this month American forces arrived in Australia to help repel the imminent Japa....
Dec 06, 2011
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Ah, coincidence, from Dickens to Didion it is the meat and drink of the writer's art. Even re....
Dec 05, 2011
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As we approach Christmas and the traditional celebration of the birth of Jesus, a new book reveal....
Dec 04, 2011
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"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
Rob Maylor has seen action in the world's most dangerous combat zones. From East Timor and Iraq to Afghanistan he has been places where no-one else wants to go.
He was there when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed, drowning two of his mates. He was there at Australia's biggest battle in Afghanistan when a Taliban ambush left him shockingly wounded. He has walked for hours, sometimes days, through hostile country until he has found the right position, sometimes more than a kilometer away from his target, then when the moment is right he aims, and with absolute precision, puts the bullet just where it going to have the most effect..."
Publisher: Hachette
ISBN: 9780733624957