418 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, maps. ISBN 0297643924 "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 me n 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 a n d d i s like 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 c ar ee r w as t o include stints in Ceylon, Egypt during the Suez crisis of 1956, Pakistan and New York. In 1966 he was appointed Governor of New South Wales; during his fifteen years in that office he shared with Captain Arthur Phillip and Lachla n M acq ua rie , h e e arned 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..." Minor wrinkle at top/bottom of spine, very small faint pencil eras ure mar ks o n fr ee f ront endpaper. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling. NF/NF

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