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Roland Perry

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October 10 1946
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Professor Roland Perry is a Melbourne-based author best known for his books on history, especially Australia in the two world wars. His Monash: The Outsider Who Won The War, won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' 'Melbourne University Publishing Award' in 2004. The judges described it as 'a model of the biographer's art. In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 2011, Perry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia 'for services to literature as an author.In October 2011, Monash University awarded Perry a Fellowship for 'high achievement as a writer, author, film producer and journalist.His sports books include biographies of Sir Donald Bradman, Steve Waugh, Keith Miller and Shane Warne. Perry has written on espionage, specialising in the British Cambridge Ring of Russian agents. He has also published three works of fiction and produced more than 20 documentary films. Perry has been a member of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council since 2006.

In late 2012 Perry accepted an adjunct appointment at Monash University as a Professor, with the title ‘Writer-in-Residence’ in the University’s Arts Faculty.

Roland Perry

4.1/5 ( ratings)
Born
October 10 1946
Twitter
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Professor Roland Perry is a Melbourne-based author best known for his books on history, especially Australia in the two world wars. His Monash: The Outsider Who Won The War, won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' 'Melbourne University Publishing Award' in 2004. The judges described it as 'a model of the biographer's art. In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 2011, Perry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia 'for services to literature as an author.In October 2011, Monash University awarded Perry a Fellowship for 'high achievement as a writer, author, film producer and journalist.His sports books include biographies of Sir Donald Bradman, Steve Waugh, Keith Miller and Shane Warne. Perry has written on espionage, specialising in the British Cambridge Ring of Russian agents. He has also published three works of fiction and produced more than 20 documentary films. Perry has been a member of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council since 2006.

In late 2012 Perry accepted an adjunct appointment at Monash University as a Professor, with the title ‘Writer-in-Residence’ in the University’s Arts Faculty.

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Bill the Bastard: The Story Of Australia's Greatest War Horse

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Anzac Sniper: The Extraordinary Story of Stan Savige, One of Australia's Greatest Soldiers

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The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History: The intriguing true story of Queen Victoria's secret

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Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War

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Red Lead: The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway

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Celeste: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling Writer

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Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history

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The Changi Brownlow

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The Australian Light Horse

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Bradman's Best

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Bradman's Best: The world's greatest cricketer selects his all-time best team

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Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight--The Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring

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Captain Australia

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The Shaman

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Sailing to the Moon: The Biography of Rolly Tasker

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Anzac Sniper: The extraordinary story of Stan Savige, one of Australia's greatest soldiers

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The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History: The intriguing true story of Queen Victoria's secret

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The Fifth Man

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The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History: The intriguing true story of Queen Victoria's secret

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