Paul Cullen Citizen and Soldier: The Life and Times of Major General Paul Cullen

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This book shows the iconic spirit of the digger - the teamwork, valuing trust and using initiative; showing courage, compassion and endurance and the mateship, a sense of selfless sacrifice, of loyalty to the end.
 

Contents

Foreword
7
Acknowledgments
9
1 Impressions of a Citizen Soldier
11
2 Boy to Man
17
3 Baptism of Fire
43
4 Hard Campaigning
73
5 Into Action on the Kokoda Track
108
6 Templetons Crossing and Eora Creek
127
8 In Wartime Australia
160
9 The AitapeWewak Campaign
171
10 Australias Citizen Soldiers
178
11 Business Affairs
190
12 Working for the Community
202
Epilogue
213
Appendix
217
Index
220

7 OiviGorari and the Advance to Sanananda
140

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About the author (2012)

Kevin Baker was born in August 1958, in Englewood, New Jersey and grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts. He graduated from Columbia University in New York City in 1980. He began his writing career directly after graduation. His first novel, Sometimes You See It Coming, based loosely on the life of Ty Cobb, was published in hardcover in 1993 and in paperback by HarperPaperbacks in the spring of 2003. Dreamland, part of Bakers New York City of Fire trilogy, was published by HarperCollins in 1999, and in paperback the following year. Paradise Alley was published by HarperCollins in 2002. Kevin was the chief historical researcher on Harold Evans' best-selling history, The American Century, published in 1999. He currently writes the monthly "In the News" column for American Heritage magazine, and has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Frankfurter Rundschau, Harpers magazine, Talk, and The Industry Standard.

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