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Kev Richardson unveils more intrigue in distant lands…all true dramas!Three distinctive true tales are, in Brogan Abroad, threaded into a single adventure. Brogan plans none-all are thrust upon him and all prove life-threatening. Each destines him to having his throat slit in some dark alley…Yet what can a man do, he laments, when to accomplish one I must fail at another?While hiding out in Thailand from a Sydney cocaine cartel, he becomes involved...
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“A Walk in the Clouds: 50 Years Among the Mountains” is a heartwarming, inspirational, and evocative collection of memories and short stories from Kev Reynolds, a prolific and celebrated guidebook author who has been roaming the mountains for a half-century. These recollections trail Reyonlds' journeys through some of his favorite and most memorable lessons learned on the mountains. The people met, experiences shared, and cultures bridged throughout...
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The love story of a couple renewing life for a derelict home for old ladies-their inspiration, satisfying the ghosts of its former denizens-a true labour of love by lovers?Evan Robson yearned to rebuild his shattered family.Maggie seemed right for him in every way except being a career girl lacking desire for motherhood. His young children lived with a couple he couldn't help but believe wanting as an influence on them. He thirsted for opportunity...
7) Gurrewa
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A true tale of the shame of a nation's founding when mostly inept personnel were chosen to accompany petty-crime-convicts to an unknown destination, to found a settlement.This story of Australia's white settlement empties the vacuum-cleaners with which modern Australians are at last cleaning under the carpet where, for generations, the dust of truth was swept.From his first days at Sydney Cove, Adam lives the shame of a nation's founding. The Aborigine...
8) Gerard Rawes
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A true tale of man's rags to riches life-not in the traditionally inferred 'Cinderella' sense, yet maybe not too far from it.Gerard discovers how life can pluck a man from one situation and dropped into another-as if sucked up by a tsunami and tossed on to the beach of a new world. In England's mid-eighteenth century, the emerging industrial revolution catapults a man out of aworld of serfdom into social London. Archival records cannot lie. Once again...
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A farewell life story of one turned author in his sixtieth year, every one of his twenty-six WingsePress novels earning Five-Star awards and even more, from recognized reviewers.How difficult is it to write your own life story?Every tale needs a satisfactory ending, yet until departed, the end isn't visible. Aren't authors expected to finish their tale with a big bang?
10) Misadventure
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Even the best made plans of seasoned traveller Brogan, can come unstuck in South America. Many erupt into chaos, become spine-chilling adventures.They hadn't counted on FARC taking hostages - he must move mountains to get help.Peru erupts in revolution – train travel over the Altiplano – a car-chase across Paraguay – the Missiones and Iguazu.
11) Summy Lu
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An uneducated woman's motherly instincts overcome wartime hardships and poverty.Sheltering her own and fostering other bairns in need are Estelle's drives in life.She builds her 'grand life' as she calls it, to a comfortable one, surrounded by those grown to realise their good fortune.
12) Beresford at Bay
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At the end of World war II, the Allied Control Council is given leave to decide on the rebuilding of Germany. Political infighting however, makes headway difficult as the Big 3 trip and stumble over each others' feet. Democracy and Communism cannot find a common path in leading Germany out of Nazism into a more meaningful nation in terms of international unity. Can Beresford's Red Cross influence help save what seems an inevitable failure of the Zoning...
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In 1968 a decision was made to combine the RAF Commands that had become famous in World War Two. Thus Fighter, Bomber, Coastal, Air Support and Signals Commands were combined into the single Strike Command. This amalgamation was to see service throughout the remaining years of the Cold War and action in the Falklands and the Middle East in Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Granby.
This book looks at the origins of the World War Two Commands...
14) Son of Gurrewa
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Children of Australia's founding convicts grow up in a unique environment. On the one hand, convicts labour in chains under lash-wielding redcoats while on the other, immigrant farmers strive to carve out a living, reluctant convicts their only available labour.Adam seeks his father knowing only that he 'went bush' to live with Aborigines. Kept from him was that his father, a convict bolter, was killed by redcoats in a frontier skirmish.The sorry...
15) Brogan's Bust
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A rich ragout of intrigue, murder, subterfuge, romance and adventureBrogan flies a courier service between remote jungle outposts of the Amazon where ruthless crime bosses bludgeon their ways to wealth in land rackets, prostitution, extortion, illegal gem trading, drugs, gun-running and smuggling. He plots to do no more than upset the smooth running of the graft that plagues his world, yet back-stabbing by cartel middle men goaded by greed converts...
16) Wotcha
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Wotcha' a contraction of the 15th century English greeting 'what chere be with you?' Watcher n a person who watches or observes somebody or something. A voyeur. Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who's condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can't not see, he's turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry. Say WOTCHA! to former rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard...
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Deprivation in occupied Germany immediately after WW2 seems greater than that in most occupied countries under the Nazis. Are the Allied victors guilty as charged, of major malpractices? For a long period, the peace proved more deadly than the fiercest battle. German deaths from malnutrition and starvation exceeded the sum of its soldiers, sailors and airmen killed in action. After the war, the victorious Allies are rightfully accused of as much graft,...
18) A Welcome War
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* World War 2 was the most welcome and alluring war of all time. * A ten-year-old lad begins the saga of his next five years influenced more by military strategy, political power and bathos than by parents or mentors.* As a means of realising how people react to adverse situations, and in discovering history and geography, he finds the lessons graphic indeed. To put it in his own words, "It beats schoolwork, hands down!"
19) Brogan's Bella
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Bella and Brogan's journey takes not the few weeks planned, but incarceration and intimidation, the fears, suffering and trepidation that only a hijack visits on one.At the end of World War 2, US forces hold Indo-China until the French return, ensuring Ho Chi Minh cannot take it down the communist path. Yet the French fail miserably in preventing the swell of resistance; it smoulders until bursting into bloody conflagration with Bella and Brogan innocent...
20) Pacific Paradox
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A Baronet's son, naïve and irresponsible, must fend for himself in the South Pacific. He survives hardship, kidnap and mugging before getting tangled up in the Japanese invasion of Guadalcanal. A nobleman's errant son is despatched to the South seas to be blooded.A tale of stumbling through intrigue, hunger, pangs of love-lust, deceit, loneliness, kidnap and hunger on his path to discovering common sense.Coast-watching on Guadalcanal when the Japanese...