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With Paulus at Stalingrad
By Tony Le Tissier, Wilhelm Adam, Otto Ru¨hle. 2015
Colonel Wilhelm Adam, senior ADC to General Paulus, commander of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, wrote a compelling and…
controversial memoir describing the German defeat, his time as a prisoner of war with Paulus, and his conversion to communism. Now, for the first time, his German text has been translated into English.Spotless A-Z: the ultimate guide to stain removal
By Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush. 2014
How to be comfy: hundreds of tips to make your house a home
By Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush. 2007
Spotless: room-by-room solutions to domestic disasters
By Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush. 2006
In a handy and easy to use format Spotless provides encylcopediac answers to all kinds of domestic disasters - from…
how to repair scratches to removing stains and other disfigurements. An essential book for the kitchen bookshelf, each chapter addresses the stains, cleaning and household problems that may come about in each room of the house: the kitchen, laundry, bathroom, bedroom, children's room and even outdoors on a deck or patio. Filled with easy, do-it-yourself cleaning solutions, handy hints and examples Spotless is a domestic bible that will be referred to again and again.Speed cleaning: a spotless house in just 15 minutes a day
By Jennifer Fleming, Shannon Lush. 2006
Become a lean, mean speedcleaning machine! Room by room, Shannon (The Queen of Clean as her legion of adoring fans…
and media have dubbed her) and Jennifer explain the best and most efficient ways to clean your house. More than that, they let us all into the secrets of making your house appear pristine and welcoming even when visitors drop in unannounced before you've had a chance to get the mops out. Perfect for busy working people, blokes (!) and simply anyone who finds keeping the house up to scratch a real chore.Discovering the Rommel murder: the life and death of the Desert Fox
By Martin Blumenson, Charles F Marshall. 1994
Marshall pieces together valuable information gleaned from Rommel's letters and interviews with his chief of staff, physician, and widow to…
reveal an intimate portrait of the great commander's life and death.Organic vegetable gardening
By Annette McFarlane. 2002
In a world where mass-produced food often lacks taste and freshness, more and more people are growing their own vegetables.…
This new, greatly expanded edition of Annette McFarlane's gardening classic offers gardeners an authoritative and comprehensive guide to growing an extensive range of organic vegetables. As well as outlining the basics - how to plan your garden and prepare soil, make compost, develop a planting guide, propagate, and sow and germinate seeds - Annette offers a mass of new and exciting material.Dad's Diaries: from country boy to Police Superintendent : Roy Jordan 1911-1974
By Mark Jordan. 2010
The tall man: death and life on Palm Island
By Chloe Hooper. 2009
In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in Far North Queensland, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested…
for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured. The main suspect was Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley a charismatic cop with long experience in Aboriginal communities and decorations for his work. Chloe Hooper was asked to write about the case by the pro bono lawyer who represented Cameron Doomadgee's family. He told her it would take a couple of weeks. She spent three years following Hurley's trial to some of the wildest and most remote parts of Australia, exploring Aboriginal myths and history and the roots of brutal chaos in the Palm Island community. Her stunning account goes to the heart of a struggle for power, revenge, and justice.MacArthur's undercover war: spies, saboteurs, guerrillas and secret missions
By William B Breuer. 1995
The covert war General Douglas MacArthur waged against Japanese forces in the Pacific arena was the largest undercover operation ever…
undertaken. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the legendary exploits and heroism of the thousands of courageous individuals who fought as spies, guerrillas, propagandists, and saboteurs behind enemy lines. In an action-packed narrative, MacArthur's Undercover War tells of thrilling feats of valor and derring-do - impossible missions to blow up harbors, kidnap heads of state, undermine currency, and arrange prison escapes, all deep within enemy territory. Firsthand interviews with veterans and information from previously unpublished documents reveal a riveting tale of World War II that has never been fully told.Jacks and jokers (Three Crooked Kings #2)
By Matthew Condon. 2014
Continuing on from the bestselling Three Crooked Kings, Jacks and Jokers opens in 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland,…
is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commissioner. As for the other two original Crooked Kings, Tony Murphy is set to ruthlessly take control of the workings of 'The Joke', while Glen Hallahan, retired from the force, begins to show a keen interest in the emerging illicit drug trade. Meanwhile, ex-cop and 'Bagman' Jack Herbert collects the payments and efficiently takes police graft to a whole new level.The Joke heralds an era of hard drugs, illegal gambling and prostitution, and leaves in its wake a string of unsolved murders and a trail of dirty money. With the highest levels of police and government turning a blind eye, the careers of honest police officers and the lives of innocent civilians are threatened and often lost as corruption escalates out of control.The fuss that never ended: the life and work of Geoffrey Blainey
By Deborah Gare. 2003
Geoffrey Blainey has steered Australian history into the nation's conversation. No one would dispute that he is a courageous public…
intellectual, a writer of rare grace and a master storyteller. And he has indeed provoked a rare fuss, both public and professional, with some of his comments on Asian immigration and Aboriginal land rights. It is time to reassess the work of Geoffrey Blainey, and consider his role in Australian history, politics and public life. A lively and distinguished assembly of fellow historians - Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre and Tom Stannage - take a fresh look at Blainey's distinguished career.John Monash: a biography
By Geoffrey Serle. 1982
General Sir John Monash was one of Australia's greatest men and probably the greatest of its soldiers. With a huge…
intellect embracing the arts, law and engineering, Monash was a Jew devoted to Jewish scholarship and a prominent public administrator. Melbourne's Monash University is but one of his memorials.Undercover
By Damian Marrett. 2005
Damian Marrett was just 19 years of age when he joined the Victoria Police in 1986 as a somewhat reluctant…
recruit. Four years down the track, he was handpicked to work in a covert capacity for the Drug Squad. A further six years working undercover, and Marrett had played a major role in up to 50 operations. The young detective was responsible for some of the biggest drug busts in Australian law enforcement history. His infiltration of the previously impenetrable Griffith Mafia, codenamed Operation Afghan, is still regarded as Australia's most complex covert sting operation. Operation Afghan endured for an exhausting nine months. Throughout that time, Marrett was compelled to stay in character as knockabout drug dealer Ben Gleeson for long periods of time. Not only did Marrett and his colleagues have the bad guys under surveillance, the bad guys were returning the favour in kind... Damian Marrett's penetrating yet darkly comic insights into undercover work reveal a style of policing that is often shrouded in secrecy.Three crooked kings (Three Crooked Kings #1)
By Matthew Condon. 2013
In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his career in law enforcement.…
Over the next four decades, he rose to the pinnacle of power as the knighted Commissioner of Police in Queensland before his spectacular downfall and imprisonment after the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late 1980s. Three Crooked Kings follows Lewis’ journey through the ranks, as he becomes part of the so-called Rat Pack with detectives Glen Hallahan and Tony Murphy under the guiding influence of Commissioner Frank Bischof. The alleged suicide of prostitute and brothel madam Shirley Brifman in the early 1970s provides the turning point for a culture that reigned unchecked for several decades. It was part of a grand narrative teeming with murder, pay-offs, political machinations, drug heists, assisted suicides, police in-fighting and a complicated system of corruption that ultimately collapsed under its own weight. Based on unprecedented interviews with Terry Lewis and access to his personal papers, Three Crooked Kings is the missing piece in the puzzle of the story of Queensland’s endemic generational corruption.All fall down (Three Crooked Kings #3)
By Matthew Condon. 2015
In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke,…
a highly organised system of graft payments from illegal gambling, prostitution and illicit drugs. As the tentacles of this fraudulent vice network spread, the fabric holding together the police, judiciary and political system starts to unravel. All Fall Down offers an unprecedented insight into the Fitzgerald Inquiry and Lewis's subsequent years in prison, and explores the real story behind the dramatic exit of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Drawing from interviews with key players who have, until now, been afraid to speak publicly, All Fall Down celebrates the bravery of those unsung heroes who risked everything to expose the truth.This epic trilogy provides the definitive account of an unforgettable period in Queensland's history. The devastating consequences of those decades of corruption still reverberate today.Little fish are sweet (Three Crooked Kings #4)
By Matthew Condon. 2016
Little Fish Are Sweet is Matthew Condon’s extraordinary personal account of writing the Three Crooked Kings trilogy. When Condon first…
interviewed disgraced former police commissioner Terry Lewis, he had no idea that it would be the start of a turbulent six-year journey. As hundreds of people came forward to share their powerful and sometimes shocking stories, decades of crime and corruption were revealed in a new light.Risking threats and intimidation, Condon tirelessly pursued his investigations into a web of cold murder cases and past conspiracies. What he discovered is much more sinister than anyone could have imagined.How to be alone
By Jonathan Franzen. 2002
A collection of fourteen essays from the author of The Corrections. Although the subjects range from the sex-advice industry to…
the way a super-max prison works, each piece wrestles with essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistance of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include an essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of the author's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey writer.Contents: My Father's Brain -- Imperial Bedroom -- Why Bother? -- Lost in the Mail -- Erika Imports -- Sifting the Ashes -- The Reader in Exile -- First City -- Scavenging -- Control Units -- Books in Bed -- Meet Me in St. Louis -- Inauguration Day, January 2001.The tiger man of Vietnam
By Frank Walker. 2009
In 1963, 28-year-old Australian Captain Barry Petersen was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-man Australian Training Team, two…
years before the first official Australian troops arrived. Seconded to the CIA, he was sent to the remote Central Highlands to build an anti-communist guerrilla force among the indigenous Montagnard people.Chickenhawk
By Robert Mason. 1983
This straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam, and a personal story of men under fire.…
Robert Mason, a veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, gives descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death -- the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger.