Robert Macklin: 15 books
Hamilton Hume
Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as...
Dragon and Kangaroo
Australia and Chinas Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.
Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right...
The Big Fella
The Rise And Rise Of BHP Billiton
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
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...
SAS Insider
An Elite SAS Fighter on Life in Australia's Toughest and Most Secretive Combat Unit
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The true story of Australia's SAS and the soldier who was there from the start.
Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today....
by Robert Macklin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
It is a story of sheer courage and skill - incredible bravery combined with the precision of a surgeon - as these men defused deadly mines, often dropped in residential areas. The detonators were frequently booby trapped by the Nazis, and these Australians and their British colleagues came to recognise...
Warrior Elite
Australias special forces Z Force to the SAS intelligence operations to cyber warfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A compelling account of Australia's intelligence organisations and special forces - from the early days of the commandos during World War II through to the SAS of today and the cyber wars of the future. From the co-author of SAS Sniper.
Warrior Elite is a unique and compelling account of Australia's...
Castaway
The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo. Around the eastern...
Backs to the Wall
A larrikin on the Western Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
'*In that hour was born in me a fear that lasted throughout the whole winter. It was the dread of dying in the mud, going down in that stinking morass and though dead being conscious throughout the ages. Waves of fear at times threatened to overwhelm me. a little weakness, a little slackening of control...
Bravest
Australia's greatest war heroes and how they won their medals
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Victoria Cross is the highest award for valour that can be won by an Australian; just 97 Australians have been awarded the VC in conflicts from the Boer War to the Afghanistan War. And only fourteen Australians have been awarded the George Cross, the ultimate medal for heroism away from active...
Fire in the Blood
The epic tale of Frank Gardiner and Australia's other bushrangers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
He was the champion of the have-nots. He was a gentleman to the core. And he was Australia's most notorious bushranger.
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...
Sniper Elite
The World of a Top Special Forces Marksman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A gritty, no-holds-barred behind-the-scenes memoir of life as one of the world's top snipers
In Sniper Elite, Rob Maylor takes readers inside the closed world of the elite Special Forces sniper, detailing Maylor's dedication to the dark art of sniping and touching on the history of the great...
Redback One
The True Story of An Australian SAS Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Explosive SAS action in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!'
It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62 mm tracer and 50 mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck.
Elite SAS Patrol...
by Robert Macklin
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Nowhere else in the world is there anything quite like it; and nothing is more beloved by Australians. Its appeal leaps across the generations, the sexes and all the social, political and religious persuasions. It is the one thing we all have in common: it is the great Australian meat pie.We all carry...
by Robert Macklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Palmer Lingard is
The Queenslander.
Palmer Lingard grew up in a quiet respectable suburb, in the Brisbane of the 1950s. He is emerging from the sunny, secure world of childhood into the vulnerability of adolescent self-consciousness, romanticism, and insistent, baffling sexuality; a charmed...
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