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''Bomb doors open!'
'It was the call that haunted airmen's dreams.
'This is the story of an ordinary young Australian whose ambition to fly took him halfway round the globe during World War II - and the fateful mission when his plane was hit three times.' (Publication summary)
Reading Australia
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Dedication: In memory of Peter Lord, David McNeill, Frank Mattingley, Tas Willimas, Joe and Jim Brock, Bramwell Barber, Allen Morgan, Ollie Morshead, Arthur Bruce, Jimmy Wilson, Hugh Brodie, John McGee and all from Bomber Command who did not return from ops.
And for David and his crew Cyril Bailey, Drew Fisher, Reg Murr, Reg Watson, Noel Ferguson, Allan Avery and all the others who did not return from ops and have lived with the nightmares.
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Epigraph: Men find a cause to die for: and the bravery of this riper spring, unjust and harmful, Scald the wilde open eye and sears the tongue. John Pudney, 'Spring 1942' from Dispersal Point and Other Air Poems.
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A Country Postmistress, Women Artists, Aboriginal People, a Tin Miner, a Bomber Pilot, a Refugee: Publishing Their Stories
2009
single work
criticism
autobiography
— Appears in: Oral History Association of Australia , no. 31 2009; (p. 30-36) Widely published Australian author and historian Christobel Mattingley has written biographies of two significant Tasmanians, two major Aboriginal histories, three film scripts about women artists, and accounts of a Second World War bomber pilot and of a Bosnian refugee, all using oral history. This article outlines aspects of her approach to her writing and to her subjects, and how her books have emerged from her own life journey. -
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2007
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review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 21 no. 2 2007; (p. 35)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography -
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2007
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review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 42 no. 3 2007; (p. 90-91)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography -
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2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 51 no. 3 2007; (p. 42)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 22 no. 2 2007; (p. 20)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography
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Tall Orders
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 7-8 April 2007; (p. 11)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography -
Real People in a Real War
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 April 2007; (p. 30)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review , June no. 22 2007; (p. 28-29)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , 27 April - 10 May no. 315 2007; (p. 19)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography -
Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 22 no. 2 2007; (p. 20)
— Review of Battle Order 204 : A Bomber Pilot's Story 2007 single work biography -
The Nightmare of Battle Order 2004
2007
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column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 June 2007; (p. 10) -
A Country Postmistress, Women Artists, Aboriginal People, a Tin Miner, a Bomber Pilot, a Refugee: Publishing Their Stories
2009
single work
criticism
autobiography
— Appears in: Oral History Association of Australia , no. 31 2009; (p. 30-36) Widely published Australian author and historian Christobel Mattingley has written biographies of two significant Tasmanians, two major Aboriginal histories, three film scripts about women artists, and accounts of a Second World War bomber pilot and of a Bosnian refugee, all using oral history. This article outlines aspects of her approach to her writing and to her subjects, and how her books have emerged from her own life journey.
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