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  • The Last Waltz
    G. S. Willmott
    Is global peace possible?Peace isn’t out of reach. Many organizations and peacekeepers are working tirelessly to mediate conflicts and support recovery. However, lasting peace needs:- Political reform- Fair resource distribution- International cooperation- Local reconciliation effortsWhile parts of the world enjoy stability, millions continue to live under the threat of violenc...
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    16,79 €

  • Did I Really Do That?
    G. S. Willmott
    HOW IT ALL STARTED:TUESDAY JANUARY 1,1952THE MELBOURNE SUN’BABY STOPPED MOTHER’S FUN’Mrs Vida Willmott of Brighton went to a New Years Eve party with a group of friends but she did not stay till the end. At 11 o’clock Mr Willmott drove his wife to hospital and at 12.15 their son Garry was born. ...
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    16,87 €

  • Escape from Hell
    G. S. Willmott
    Escape from Hell by G.S. Willmott documents the history of POW escapes. Each chapter focuses on a particular character, conflict of prison camp, and follows the ingenious, determined, and often fruitless attempts made to leave enemy territory and get back to home ground. Some of these stories may be familiar, and others, not. All have one thing in common; the burning desire of ...
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    22,44 €

  • The Levant
    G. S. Willmott
    The Levant: A Short History of the Middle East, by G.S. Willmott is one of those unclassifiable books that moves seamlessly between fact and fiction. From the stone age to modern times, the author follows the fortunes of the Middle East, giving a broad historical perspective as well as more intimate stories about characters, familiar and not familiar, from different eras. We fo...
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    22,50 €

  • Gangsters & Whores
    G. S. Willmott
    Gangsters & Whores is a romp through some of the more colourful characters of Australian history.G.S. Willmott tells their stories with his trademark mix of dramatisation and fact, embellishing them with dialogue and vintage photos, facts, figures and a sly sense of humour. This is not Ned Kelly country - this is the stamping ground od notorious madam Tilly Devine, her violent ...
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    18,99 €

  • Living in the 70s
    G. S. Willmott
    'Living in the 70s is Garry’s follow up to the Fab 60s, although following a similar pattern the book cleverly departs from tradition with interleaved anecdotes and photos from the author’s past. These anecdotes serve as milestones throughout the decade. Written in Garry’s usual fast paced style, interposing fact and a modicum of fiction, this book will interest and amuse not o...
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    22,25 €

  • The Fab Sixties
    G. S. Willmott
    In a delightful romp down memory lane, funny, factual and fast Garry has brought back many memories good and bad from the ’roaring 60s’.Garry’s style of mixing fact with some fiction makes it incredibly easy to read, cover to cover in one sitting.A great read for anyone that was there even if you can remember it. - Martin HumphreysHi Garry, loved your book 'The Fab 60s'. It ins...
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    22,27 €

  • Caught Between Two Worlds
    G. S. Willmott
    A compelling story about the destiny of an Australian soldier in the Vietnam war. As a returned Vietnam veteran, it brought back many vivid memories of my time there. Beautifully written and well researched with thought to detail, captivating and difficult to put down, not knowing what was about to happen next. Thoroughly recommend this as an excellent read on the life of an am...
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    18,99 €

  • The Last Pirate Hanged
    G. S. Willmott
    William Swallow was a wayward boy who became a wayward man. Transported as a convict, he became a diligent escaper, but his greatest exploit was when he and some of his fellows commandeered the Cypress in Recherche Bay Tasmania and sailed to Tahiti.The adventures that follow are as amazing as they are exciting, packed with historical detail and event. Swallow and his companions...
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    18,68 €

  • 1000 Yard Stare
    G. S. Willmott
    PTSD has been documented throughout history since man first began clubbing each other with rocks. Our understanding of this debilitation has only increased or become more visible in our digital age. In the past it was seen as a source of shame and embarrassment, not just for those suffering PTSD, but also their families and loved ones. The dark ages are gone we hope. We now str...
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    17,38 €

  • Small Farm Warriors
    G. S. Willmott
    Yet another great read from Garry Willmott. Small Farm Warriors is filled with lives and stories of men who contributed, in a special way, to the Australia we all know today. From the war-torn streets of France to emus in the Outback, from Kokoda to sheep farms - Garry tells us how these fellas fought and then worked to create a life for themselves and their new families. In so...
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    17,16 €

  • Global Warming
    G. S. Willmott
    Global Warming is a complex thriller with Garry Willmott's trademark mix of fact, fiction and projection. From the death of one man, pilot Ericson, the story builds to a tsunami of blackmail, terrorism, compromise and revenge... and that's before the Russian mafia gets in on the act! If you've enjoyed Garry's other novels, you'll love Global Warming. Just ho...
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    17,14 €

  • Colour Blind
    G. S. Willmott
    'Colour Blind tells the story of two wars affecting Australia a hundred years ago: World War I that everyone knows about, and the lesser known one, the battles that past generations of Aboriginal Australians faced. Not the British Invasion, but the struggle more than a century later when Aboriginal men who were willing to serve alongside non-Aboriginal Australians, their mates,...
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    17,15 €

  • Grand Deceptions
    G. S. Willmott
    Grand Deceptions is a historical novel centred predominantly around Melbourne and Ballarat in Victoria Australia. England, Scotland and San Marino also play a part of this captivating story.The timeline begins in the 1850s and ends in the 1960s. Three well to do young men immigrate to Victoria; their reasons are all different but their ambitions are the same - make their fortun...
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    23,80 €

  • Serendipity
    G. S. Willmott
    Garry Willmott asked me to be a preview reader of Serendipity: A Gallipoli Love Story. Having read five of his previous books I agreed immediately. I thought I would read it in a month however once I began reading I couldn't put it down, I completed the manuscript in two days. The story begins in Tasmania and follows the main character to Gallipoli and onto his life in Turk...
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    17,16 €

  • Boy's Own War
    G. S. Willmott
    This book is about war, yet it's not a novel about enemies fighting to the death or examining the strategies of battles. This novel is about young boys some as young as eight, fighting, killing and being killed. The first six chapters follow the lives of two normal happy teenagers attending school, playing sport and learning about girls. This creates a comparative scenario...
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    20,29 €

  • The Other Side of the Trench
    G. S. Willmott / GSWillmott
    This story deserves to be told. Garry Willmott creates graphic and quite horrifying insights into unseen and 'unsung' aspects of World War 1, where so many Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealander, American and French soldiers were slaughtered and still, today, lie uninterred in forgotten furrows of French fields. The author tells this story in a simple direct style...
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    21,86 €

  • Escape
    G. S. Willmott
    This sequence of authentic and audacious war-time escapes keeps the reader spell-bound from start to finish. Garry Willmott has unearthed a series of escapes which would be the envy of Houdini. From the chilling history of escapes from Colditz, escapes from comparatively humane British POW camps and from a Prisoner-of-War camp in Australia, these are all carefully selected to e...
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    20,22 €

  • Brothers in Arms
    G. S. Willmott
    Brothers in Arms is an extraordinary story, one which provides insights into the dualities of human nature, especially against a background of war. We are confronted with the potential within all of us for both heroism and cowardice, honesty and deception, altruism and greed; there is, in the intensity of war-time, a heightened awareness of moral dilemmas, choices between good ...
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    20,38 €

  • You Forgot the Sauce
    G. S. Willmott
    This story brings life the anguish of those people, young and old, suffering the consequences of Alzheimer's disease. It is a story that illuminates many factual aspects of the nature of this illness while fictionally bringing us into the lives of those transformed by its devastating effects. The author has created sympathetic and credible characters whose plights we share as t...
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    17,26 €

  • Survival
    G. S. Willmott
    ’A compelling read, this is the story of one family’s journey through wars, tragedies and triumphs. A story of love, family, unity and resilience. Another great story from Australian author G. S. Willmott. Very difficult to put this one down.’ - Christine ’Historical thriller of how one family beat the odds to survive WWI and WWII... The ending leaves the reader astonished.’ - ...
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    22,02 €