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Peter Cochrane’s writing about war includes the award-winning Simpson and the Donkey: The Making of a Legend; the companion volume to the ABC TV series Australians at War; and two studies of wartime photography, The Western Front, 1916–18 and Tobruk 1941. Cochrane is also the author of Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy, which won the Age Book of the Year award and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, and two works of fiction: the novella Governor Bligh and the Short Man and the recently published novel The Making of Martin Sparrow.

Average rating: 3.81 · 272 ratings · 52 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Making of Martin Sparrow

4.09 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions
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Best We Forget: The War for...

4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings2 editions
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Tips for Time Travelers

2.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions
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Governor Bligh and the Shor...

2.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Uncommon Sense: Out of the ...

3.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions
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Colonial Ambition: Foundati...

3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2006
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Simpson and the Donkey: The...

3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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Tobruk 1941 - the Whole Emp...

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The Western Front 1916 - 1918

4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004
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Australians At War

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Peter Cochrane, The Making of Martin Sparrow

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