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This is the biography of one of the RAF's airmen that Winston Churchill referred to as The Few'.

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Sharon Bowns remarkable 16-year career with the RAAF saw her deployed to East Timor, Bali and Afghanistan. From barely surviving a helicopter crash to commanding a combat surgical team, her story is a confronting, but ultimately inspirational, account of what our men and women in the military experience, and the price they pay for their service.

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The extraordinary true love story of a couple who were separated during a shameful and fascinating chapter of British history.

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A history of one of the worlds greatest armoured warfare commanders. During World War II, Hermann Balck (18971982) commanded panzer troops from the front line and led by example. The book charts an exciting journey through the fields of France, mountains of Greece and steppes of Russia. It is also the story of a deeply cultured and complex man.

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The first full-length account of Owen Wilkes' life and work. Born in Christchurch, Owen Wilkes was an internationalist and a dedicated New Zealander a subsistence farmer on the West Coast (where his self-built eco-home was demolished by the local council), an archaeologist, tramper and yachtsman.

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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the experience of a band of Israeli soldiers charged with holding a remote outpost in Lebanon during an unnamed war that foreshadowed the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.

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As the proud son of one of the Few, Rick Peacock-Edwards was inspired to follow his father into the Royal Air Force and become a fighter pilot. This is an action-packed account of a foremost flyers life with endless good stories, and a colourful cast of characters to match. Amust for all lovers of derring-do in the air.

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A social history of a fifty year period, spanning the Regency into the Victorian era

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B.A. Santamaria was a political activist and traditionalist Catholic layman, an important figure in one of the key political events in Australia history, the disastrous 1954 split in the ALP. Santamaria produced many working documents for his employees, supporters and members, published here in the public realm for the first time.

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A memoir that tells the amazing story of Peter's experiences in World War II, when he was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. Now over 90 years old, Peter tells the incredible story of his survival.

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Mary Ellis was one of the first pilots and one of only three women to take the controls of the new Meteor fast jet.

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Audrey Carson grew up in the Nelson area, she became a teacher before her life took a dramatic change. After she married and became Audrey Ewan she spent a time as one of New Zealands first female Parliamentary Press Officers before becoming a journalist with the Evening Post newspaper. Her fascinating story is told in The Audrey Story.

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The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. This work traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition. It places the Boyds in their historical and personal contexts, and tells the interwoven stories of their brilliant careers, and analyses the shaping influences on their lives.

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The gripping biography of the First World War General who inspired Hitler's rise to power

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Each myth is related in detail and then clinically examined to uncover the truth, exposing the inaccuracies and impossibilities of the stories.

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A smart, lively history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society - and the life and shocking suicide of child prodigy, Aaron Swartz, hacktivist and founding developer of Reddit, Creative Commons and Watchdog.net