Roden Cutler, VC The Biography
by Colleen McCullough
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0091839335
- ISBN 13
- 9780091839338
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Random House, Australia, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Roden Cutler's list of honours is long and impressive, but it is his sole decoration, the Victoria Cross, that marks him as a hero. Over 800,000 men and women served in the Australian armed forces during the Second World War, but only twenty were awarded the V.C. Colleen McCullough vividly shows us the life and times of the young soldier with the dashing good looks, the laconic humour and dislike of pretension who came back from the war determined to continue to support his mother, but, having lost a leg, with no idea how to do so. Yet by the age of 29 he was the Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand. His diplomatic career was to include stints to Ceylon, Egypt during the Suez crisis of 1956, Pakistan and New York. In 1966 he was appointed Governor of New South Wales; during his 15 years in that office he shared with Captain Arthur Phillip and Lachlan Macquarie, he earned his own niche among them as the `people's governor'. Much loved, still remembered as a man equally at home in the company of royalty or trade unionists.His story is embedded in Australian history, and part of it. But it is also the story of a man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps to serve his country with courage and dignity in the face of all obstacles. In an age accustomed to public idols with feet of clay, Roden Cutler is the exception: a man whose integrity is as formidable as his humility is astonishing. 418 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0091839335. ISBN/EAN: 9780091839338. Inventory No: 258764. . 9780091839338
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 258764
- Title
- Roden Cutler, VC The Biography
- Author
- Colleen McCullough
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091839335
- ISBN 13
- 9780091839338
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Unbranded ISBN: 0091839335 EAN: 9780091839338 Colleen McCullough Roden Cutler, VC The Biography
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