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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 An Unqualified Success : The Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming
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'In this book Peter Golding traces the story of Fleming's remarkable life, adding flesh to the skeleton of a succession of careers with a fascinating range of incidents including a brief and cheeky encounter with Rommel in North Africa and a tender love story that began in a college tower.' ( Publisher's blurb)

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    • Kenthurst, Baulkham Hills area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd , 2013 .
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      Extent: 344p.
      Description: illus. (b & w), maps.
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      • Published December 1st 2013
      ISBN: 9781922013545 (paperback)
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Absorbing Tribute to a Fine Australian Robert Willson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 February 2014; (p. 20)
— Review of An Unqualified Success : The Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming Peter Golding , 2013 single work biography
[Review Essay] An Unqualified Success: the Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming Ian McCallum , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: The Australian Library Journal , vol. 62 no. 4 2013; (p. 314-316) 'Peter Golding has written in lively style a fascinating account of the life of Allan Fleming (1912–2001): teacher, journalist, decorated soldier, defence intelligence expert, trade commissioner, parliamentary librarian, National Librarian and then, from out of retirement, head of a new counterterrorist organisation responsible for the security of Australian public figures, starting in 1978 at the time of the Hilton Hotel bombing in Sydney.' (Introduction)
Absorbing Tribute to a Fine Australian Robert Willson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 February 2014; (p. 20)
— Review of An Unqualified Success : The Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming Peter Golding , 2013 single work biography
[Review Essay] An Unqualified Success: the Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming Ian McCallum , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: The Australian Library Journal , vol. 62 no. 4 2013; (p. 314-316) 'Peter Golding has written in lively style a fascinating account of the life of Allan Fleming (1912–2001): teacher, journalist, decorated soldier, defence intelligence expert, trade commissioner, parliamentary librarian, National Librarian and then, from out of retirement, head of a new counterterrorist organisation responsible for the security of Australian public figures, starting in 1978 at the time of the Hilton Hotel bombing in Sydney.' (Introduction)
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