Publicado por Lonely Planet, 2017
ISBN 10: 1787012662 ISBN 13: 9781787012660
Librería: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: good. Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Publicado por Lonely Planet, 2006
ISBN 10: 1741042887 ISBN 13: 9781741042887
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.
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Nuevo desde EUR 52,25
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Publicado por Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 1782390871 ISBN 13: 9781782390879
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. David is thirteen and confused. His mum has left with her lover and dumped David on his grandparents. David's grandfather, Jimmy, is seventy. He spends his days at the social club grumbling with his three best friends, all of them Jewish-Australian survivors of the enforced labour camps of the WWII Thai-Burma Railroad. But behind their playful backbiting and irresistible wit, Jimmy and his friends are haunted by the ghosts of long-dead comrades, and the only person Jimmy can confide in is a thirteen-year-old from a different world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Publicado por Atlantic Books, Limited, 2014
ISBN 10: 178239088X ISBN 13: 9781782390886
Librería: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Publicado por MacMillan, 2008
ISBN 10: 1405038721 ISBN 13: 9781405038720
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Usado desde EUR 9,95
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Publicado por Allen & Unwin, 2005
ISBN 10: 1741143209 ISBN 13: 9781741143201
Librería: Stock & Trade LLC, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A trade paperback in excellent condition, clean with a tight binding and an unmarked text.From a private smoke free collection.Shipping within 24 hours, with a tracking number and delivery confirmation.
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Nuevo desde EUR 48,43
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Publicado por Penguin Australia, 2015
ISBN 10: 0143572423 ISBN 13: 9780143572428
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
Publicado por Macmillan Australia, 2011
ISBN 10: 1405040181 ISBN 13: 9781405040181
Librería: Hawking Books, Edgewood, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Meets the good condition guidelines. Has some crinkling and staining. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!.
Publicado por MacMillan, 2009
ISBN 10: 1405039620 ISBN 13: 9781405039628
Librería: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good.
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Publicado por NewSouth, 2017
ISBN 10: 1742235352 ISBN 13: 9781742235356
Librería: thebookforest.com, San Rafael, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Tear to upper spine edge and tear to DJ. Very clean usable example. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
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Usado desde EUR 15,53
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Publicado por Harper Collins Publishers Australia Pty Ltd, 2007
ISBN 10: 0732285216 ISBN 13: 9780732285210
Librería: California Books, Miami, FL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New.
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Publicado por Penguin Random House Australia, Hawthorn, 2017
ISBN 10: 067007862X ISBN 13: 9780670078622
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The untold story of the ordinary Australians conscripted to fight in our most controversial war, by one of our most celebrated journalists.On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war.The nashos came from all walks of life- plumbers and dentists, footballers and musicians, Christians and Jews, willing and unwilling. Some spent their two years square-bashing in Singleton. Others went to Vietnam to fight - and die - in Australia's bloodiest battles, including the slaughter at Long Tan.But our ideas of national service contain strange contradictions and inaccuracies- that the draft was unpopular but militarily necessary; that the nashos in Vietnam all volunteered to go to war; and that they were met by protesters and demonstrations on their return to Australia, rather than the huge welcome-home parades reported at the time.Here, Mark Dapin dramatically deconstructs the folklore of Vietnam and national service. Drawing on the accounts of over one hundred and fifty former national servicemen, The Nashos' War tells a vastly more personal and nuanced story of national service and Australia's Vietnam War than that previously heard. Most powerfully, it records with extraordinary intensity what it was like to be a bank clerk one day, and fighting for your life in the jungles of Vietnam soon afterwards. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Publicado por Simon & Schuster Australia, 2023
ISBN 10: 1761108093 ISBN 13: 9781761108099
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a succulent Chinese meal. But when Mark Dapin investigated, it emerged that this man's story went to the heart of the Australian underworld. A true crime cult classic in the making. Whether you know it as the succulent Chinese meal video, or democracy manifest, chances are you have seen the video of baritone larrikin Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1991. The Guardian called it perhaps the pre-eminent Australian meme of the last 10 years. When Karlson called crime writer Mark Dapin out of the blue, though, Dapin hadnt heard of him. But there was enough that intrigued him about this theatrical outlaw to continue the conversation. Over the following months emerged a dark and complex past. It turned out that Karlson had been in the background of many notorious incidents in late-twentieth century Australian crime, from collaborating with infamous prison-playwright Jim McNeil to befriending hitman Christopher Dale Flannery (Mr Rent-a-Kill). But most shockingly of all, Karlsons life story led Dapin to shed new light on a number of unsolved murders, by two serial killers.The result is an extraordinary, deeply revealing portrait of Australian crime from the 60s to the 2010s a portrait of carnage. Mark Dapin could never be accused of glorifying crime, but he is guilty as sin for understanding it. Inhabited by flawed humans, filled with violence, humour, tears and dreams, Carnage is a classic Australian crime story. Gary Jubelin, author of I Catch Killers 'True crime at its grim and richly entertaining best, and lets face it its truest. Robert Drewe, author of The Shark Net If ever there was a book crammed with colourful villains who are mad, bad and dangerous to know, its definitely Mark Dapins extraordinary book, Carnage. Kate McClymont, author of He Who Must Be Obeid Carnage is a window into Australian mayhem, killingly funny and beautifully told. Dapin finds pathos in a twisted world. Matthew Spencer, author of Black River Carnage begins by probing what seems a minor curiosity an internet meme centred on a colourful character then takes a turn into the lives of traumatised youths hurled without care or thought into brutalising reformatories. From there they graduate to rorts, robberies, violence. Bleak lives interspersed with occasional forays into squaresville spouses, kids, even jobs and attempts at betterment via theatre and literature. A unique, deeply felt take on the Australian underworld. Peter Doyle, author of Crooks Like Us The moment I start reading anything by Mark Dapin Im captivated, intrigued and engaged for the entire journey. There is no finer writer documenting the history and characters of Australian criminality. Stuart Coupe Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Publicado por Pan, Sydney, 2010
ISBN 10: 0330426125 ISBN 13: 9780330426121
Librería: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Pictorial Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. First Thus. Australian crime fiction. Printed in Australia. A nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 311pp. SB-44.
Publicado por Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2020
ISBN 10: 1760295353 ISBN 13: 9781760295356
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In the Australia of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, armed robbers were the top of the criminal food chain. Their dash and violence were celebrated, and men like Ray Denning and Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox were household names long before Underbelly established Melbourne's gangland thugs as celebrities. Both were handsome, charismatic bandits who refused to bow to authority. Both were classified as 'intractable' in prison, and both escaped. Cox was the only man to escape from Katingal, Australia's only 'escape-proof' jail. Soon after he broke out, he tried to break in again and rescue his mates. Their story is one of violence (both men killed at least once) and romance (both men had lovers on the run - Denning had many girlfriends; Cox married into a Painters & Dockers gangster family); and humour: Cox, whose real name was the distinctive Melville Schnitzerling, lived on the run under the noses of the police in Schnitznerling Road, Warwick - a street named after his great-grandfather. It is also a story of the unimaginably horrible life of boys condemned to 'institutions' in the 1960s, and the terrible conditions in Australian jails in the '70s and '80s. These were the hells where a whole generation of armed robbers was forged. The final ending is both a tragedy and a redemption of sorts, as Denning betrays Cox and dies - not by the gun, but by the needle, and Cox becomes a model prisoner and, against all expectations, wins early release. Mark Dapin brings his brilliant research skills and distinctive, powerful narrative style to a book that explores the life of these two men and the criminal world they inhabited. From armed robberies, shootings and bashings to prison barbarity and jail breaks, this a page-turning, gritty story for readers of everything from Chopper's memoirs to the Underbelly series. The gripping and revealing inside story of Australia's most notorious armed robbers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Publicado por Penguin Group, Melbourne, 2013
ISBN 10: 0143798189 ISBN 13: 9780143798187
Librería: Peter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970. PBFA, BCSA), Cambridge, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
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Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.xviii+413. 23.5cm. Biographies of contributors. Acknowledgments. Soft covers, the upper cover warped. A good clean copy.
Publicado por Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2021
ISBN 10: 1761065157 ISBN 13: 9781761065156
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 'Dapin's words cut into the organs of the criminal underworld like a surgeon's knife!' DAVID McMILLAN, Klong Prem Central Prison Bangkok escapee'Mark Dapin has built a rapport with some of Australia's most serious criminals. It is a rapport that gives him an edge over other authors that cannot be replicated.'BERNIE MATTHEWS, Long Bay Correctional Centre escapeeOn a Sunday afternoon in 1980, armed robber Gregory David Roberts abseiled down the front wall of a maximum-security prison in broad daylight. He spent a decade on the run in West Asia before writing his own legend in the bestselling semi-autobiographical novel, Shantaram. In the late nineties, Melbourne-based drug dealer and gangster David McMillan became the only Australian ever to escape from the so-called 'Bangkok Hilton' in Thailand. And in 1999, armed robber John Killick was airlifted out of a maximum-security prison by his beautiful Russian-born girlfriend - after she hijacked a helicopter with a machine gun. With unprecedented access to ex-prisoners, prison officers and police, as well as ASIO files and witnesses, Mark Dapin brings to life a hidden criminal world of prison brutality, courage and legend. Prison Break tells the real story behind Australia's most audacious prison escapes and proves that sometimes the truth is even more compelling than the myth. The true stories behind the myths of Gregory Roberts, John Killick and Australia's most wanted men. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Publicado por Viking, Melbourne, 2011
ISBN 10: 0670075523 ISBN 13: 9780670075522
Librería: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
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Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 449 pages. A collection of the finest letters, diaries, memoirs that remind us of our history and of our responsibility in recording what happens in wars. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Publicado por Melbourne: Viking (2013), 2013
Librería: BOOK NOW, BENDIGO, VIC, Australia
240x160: xviii,414pp. Textured papered boards (Hardback) in dust jacket, Very Good/Very Good, paper a little yellowed. ISBN: 9780 670 07781 6 , Weight: 690g. .
Publicado por University of New South Wales Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1742236367 ISBN 13: 9781742236360
Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Publicado por Pan Macmillan 2010, 2010
Librería: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nueva Zelanda
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Paperback (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Publicado por Viking for Penguin, Melbourne 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0670075523 ISBN 13: 9780670075522
Librería: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
24.0 x 16.0cms, 450pp very good hardback & dustwrapper (tanning paper) This book begins with Watkin Tench on the settlement of Port Jackson and the Frontier Wars and ends with Korea, Vietnam, the War on Terror, Iraq War & Afghanistan.
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Publicado por Viking, Uk, 2014
ISBN 10: 0670077054 ISBN 13: 9780670077052
Librería: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 470 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
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Publicado por Viking, Melbourne, 2013
Librería: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Pp. xviii+413(last blank), biographies, printed endpapers; med. 8vo; brown boards, lettered in white; dust wrapper; leaves a little browned; Viking/Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2013. First edition. *'Drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters, as well as poetry, reportage and prose, this collection reminds us that the Anzac legend is rooted in real and tragic circumstances on a heartbreakingly human scale' [wrapper blurb].
Publicado por Penguin, 2011
ISBN 10: 0143572342 ISBN 13: 9780143572343
Librería: Hill End Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good clean well bound copy: 359 pages. Some smudging to cover.
Publicado por Viking, Australia, 2013
ISBN 10: 067007781X ISBN 13: 9780670077816
Librería: Berry Books, Berry, NSW, Australia
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Pages slightly affected by moisture Size: 9"-10" Tall. Jacket a bit worn. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; Australian History; ISBN/EAN: 9780670077816. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 31491.
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Publicado por Viking, Australia, 2014
Librería: Lectioz Books, Gloucester, NSW, Australia
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket has light general wear. No tears. Internally clean. Binding tight. 470pp Size: 160mm x 240mm. Book.
Publicado por Viking Penguin, Australia, 2014
Librería: Rotary Club of Albert Park, Albert Park, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First. 470 pages, 8vo. A fine clean copy, illustrated .
Publicado por Pan Macmillan, 2008
Librería: biblion2, Obersulm, Alemania
Condición: very good. Taschenbuch. Zustandsangabe altersgemäß. Sofortversand aus Deutschland. Artikel wiegt maximal 500g. 370 Seiten. Gutes Exemplar in englischer Sprache. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Seiten leicht nachgedunkelt.
Publicado por Viking, Melbourne, 2015
ISBN 10: 0670078204 ISBN 13: 9780670078202
Librería: Great Southern Books, King River, WA, Australia
Original o primera edición
Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 289 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post. John Nashville Grant is an American military policeman in the R&R town of Vung Tau, tucked safely behind the front lines of the Vietnam War. Nashville knows how everything works: the army, the enemy, bars, secrets, men and - at least in Vung Tau - women. He's keeping the peace by keeping his head down and making the most of it. His new partner is a tall man from a small town: Shorty, from Bendigo. Shorty knows nothing about anything, and he wishes people would stop mistaking that for stupidity. When another MP shoots a corpse in a brothel, the delicate balance between the military police, South Vietnamese gangsters and the Viet Cong is upset. Nashville and his partner are drawn into the heart of the matter by their violent colleague Sergeant Caution, the obsequious landlord Moreau, the improbable entrepreneur Izzy Berger and the mysterious, omnipotent Mamasan. Events begin to force the pair to uphold the law and perhaps - ultimately, unwillingly - to take it into their own hands. Written with a brilliant, concise wit and brutal, uncompromising insight, R&R is a startlingly original portrait of men and war in the twilight zone behind the front, a searing study of the violence that we do to others, and ourselves. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; War; Vietnam; 1970s; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780670078202. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9980.