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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
by Peter Fitzsimons
Online Price: $49.99
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is one of Australia's most loved heroes.
In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier among the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front, to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his generation.
Along with Charles Ulm, he was the first man to conquer the Pacific by air, the first to fly across the Tasman Sea, the fastest man to fly from England to Australia, and the first pilot to circumnavigate the globe by crossing the equator.
With typical flair, FitzSimons also tells the story of the several breakthroughs, some of which were discovered in Australia, which laid the foundation for the Wright brothers' success in 1903; the first flight across the Channel in 1908; Germany's Red Baron terrorising the Allies in 1917-18, before being shot down by an Australian; Ross and Keith Smith's breakthrough first flight from England to Australia in 1919; the formation of Qantas in 1921; Lindbergh's stunning vault between America and Europe in 1927; the Great Centenary Air Race, the loss of the Southern Cloud; the saga of Bert Hinkler and much, much, more . . .
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Tag
by Barry Heard
Online Price: $32.95
Even as a lad, Tag Wardpod has an extraordinary gift with animals. Growing up in western Victoria, he is followed to school by his pets, he trains lizards to eat snails in the vegie patch, and he tames brumbies on the High Plains. Then, when war is declared in 1914, and recruitment posters promise a great adventure, Tag leaves his job as a blacksmith and horse handler to join the Light Horse Brigade. But neither bush camps with his mates nor football heroism have prepared him for the horror, fury, and love that await him in Gallipoli and France. Soothing shell-shocked horses in desperate conditions, his gifts will both endanger and save him. Barry Heard, author of the Vietnam war memoir Well Done, Those Men, brings new insights to the Gallipoli legend. A true storyteller, his imagination makes real for us the formative battlefield of early Australian nationhood. Tag is a moving war story that is also a bush tale, a family saga, a romance, and a revelation of how the human spirit can survive war's inhumanity.
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The Scarecrow
by Michael Connelly
Online Price: $32.99
Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realises that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent. Jack is soon running with his biggest story since The Poet made his career years ago. He is tracking a killer who operates completely below police radar - and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. Including Jack's.
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Shooting Balibo
by Tony Maniaty
Online Price: $32.95
In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo. Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television newsmen who followed were murdered by Indonesian troops. Maniaty reported the Balibo Five story, faced death threats and fled before the Indonesian forces invaded. In Shooting Balibo, he teams up with the cast and crew of the feature film Balibo, retraces his days of danger, and dines with Jose Ramos-Horta as the independence fighter-turned-President recovers from an assassination attempt. But Maniaty's real purpose is to visit Balibo for the first time since 1975. When he steps into the burned-out house where his colleagues were slaughtered thirty-three years ago, past and present collide before his eyes.
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