Rosenberg Publishing: 54 books

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Trailblazers

The Story of Australia's First Olympic Equestrians

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Trailblazers is the story of the first Australians to compete at an international level in FEI equestrian events. The six men selected for the 1956 Olympic Games had just 14 months to learn it all on the English Show circuit. They had never competed in a three day event, didn't understand dressage and...
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by Ron J. Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Ron Fitch was born in 1910 into a railway family. He began his career as a 16-year-old engineering cadet and completed it, 46 years later, having worked at various times for two state railways and the Commonwealth, as Commissioner of South Australian Railways. In this book Fitch gives a vivid account...
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by Brian Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Governor-General Sir John Kerrs dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Australian political history. Born into a privileged life Whitlam joined the Australian...
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by Ian M. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This is a book about tractors, places and people. Ian Johnston is a renowned international expert on tractors. Ian begins with his boyhood in Fife and Edinburgh. He tells of venturing to Australia alone at the age of 16. His experiences as a jackaroo, a truck driver, erecting windmills and a tractor...
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by Richard Cox
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

William Cox (17641837) was a soldier, road builder, and pioneering pastoralist in the colony of New South Wales. He made his name building the road across the Blue Mountains in 1814. In just over six months, his team of 30 convicts hacked out 163 kilometres of road through appalling terrain, without...
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Diary of a Spitfire Pilot

Over the English Channel and Over Darwin

by Allen Mawer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Allen Mawer's diary is a candid and sometimes disconcerting record of conquests in the air and on the ground. It recounts the highs and lows of his war. From 1941 when, aged 21, he hunted the Hun over the English Channel and experienced the perils of aerial combat and the hazards of wartime romance....
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by Teague, Ric
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

The story of Vietnam veteran Allan ‘Aldy’ Aldenhoven, born in Darwin, his mother was of “The Stolen Generation” and his father a descendant of German settlers. Grew up in Adelaide, and was conscripted to fight in the Vietnam War. He was with the 7 RAR where his fighting spirit was legendary....
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New Guinea Engineer

The Memoirs of Les Bell M.B.E.

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

World War II Royal Australian Air Force Flying Officer Les Bell, MBE recounts startling tales of settlement in Northern Queensland, the equatorial coconut and gold empires of German and Australian New Guinea, and the country's island archipelagos. In 1914 Les, aged 10, won his first Scout badge for collecting...
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From Tobruk to Borneo

Memoirs of an Italian Aussie Volunteer

by Frank G Perversi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Frank Perversi was a Rat of Tobruk for six months and was attached to forward troops in the mighty battle at EI Alamein; in the first wave of amphibious operations at Lae and Finschhafen and in the attack on Shaggy Ridge in the Ramu Valley (all in New Guinea) and finally in the overwhelming amphibious operation at Balikpapan, Borneo.
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The Missing Years

A PoW's Story from Changi to Hellfire Pass

by Sue Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009

This is the gripping story of Captain Hugh Pilkington's disastrous Malaya campaign in which he was shot by a Japanese sniper, became a PoW while hospitalised in Singapore, then— with only one good arm — was packed off to work on the Thai-Burma Death Railway.
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Chinese Factor

An Australian Chinese Woman's life in China from 1950-1979

by Pamela Tan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The author left Australia patriotically attracted to the new China created by the communist revolution. She stayed nearly 30 years through a period of initial promise followed by a series of disasters. Here, she explores her experience, beliefs, confusion and fear in China, her young life in Melbourne...
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by Malcolm Prentis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This book provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historical...
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by Ian Burnet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

Follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port cities across the East Indies and the Orient uncovering the high finance, piracy, greed, ambition, double dealing, and exploitation. Driven  by the search for spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains and other oriental goods the Portuguese trading...
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Man who stole the Cyprus

A True Story of Escape

by Warwick Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east coast of Tasmania when she was captured by eighteen convicts under the leadership of William Swallow, a prisoner for life. Eight years earlier he had stowed away on a ship to England only...
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