Mates, Mascots and Marvels - True Stories of Animals Who Went to War
Author: Barry Stone
From the Boer War to the conflict in Vietnam, from the Somme to Afghanistan, from beasts of burden and bomb detectors to providers of companionship and light relief for the men and women in war, animals have played a vit ... |
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Author: Frank Walker
For 39 years the Australian Defence Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defence and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War.The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular t ... |
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Author: Hunter S. Thompson
'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ..."' Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down ... |
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Her Life in Our Times
Author: Sarah Bradford
Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presi ... |
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Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
Author: Theo Coster
In 1941 Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of twenty-eight Jewish children segregated by the Nazis from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was Anne Frank, ... |
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History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
Author: Peter Watson
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time ... |
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X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - the Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler's Mightiest Warship
Author: Patrick Bishop
A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler's most terrifying battleship -- the legendary Tirpitz -- and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi's fearsome war ma ... |
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Author: Denis Avey & Rob Broomby
THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being h ... |
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Author: Jon Krakauer
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author J ... |
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Author: Troy Bramston
Today, despite being in government, Labor is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term and tanking in the opinion polls (the lowest primary vote in 25 years of Newspoll), how did it come to this so so ... |
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Ordinary Australians and Their Extraordinary Acts of Courage
Author: Mark Whittaker
Would you squeeze your way into a shoulder-width, pitch-dark stormwater drain to rescue a kid as it flooded? Would you knowingly cop a 20,000 volt electric shock to save a friend and his child? Would you swim out from th ... |
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Author: Luis Carlos Montalvan
A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier's life forever. A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalvan never backed down from a challenge during ... |
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Author: Martin Pistorius
In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being cared for at centres for severely disabled children. What no-one knew is that while Ma ... |
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A Traveler's Journal of Love and France
Author: Vivian Swift
Road trip: those are still the two most inspiring words to vagabonds and couch potatoes alike; after all, the great American spirit was forged by road trippers from the Pilgrims to Lewis and Clark to the Dharma Bums. Le ... |
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One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Author: Blaine Harden
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control dist ... |
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One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Author: Blaine Harden
Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape ...Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in ... |
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The Secret History of Australia's Favourite Song
Author: Dennis O'Keeffe
Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by our most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as our most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, ... |
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An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
Author: Gabrielle Walker
There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beau ... |
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Three Daughters of China
Author: Jung Chang
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of ... |
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