My Story

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 468 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. My Personal Story, From Boyhood To Battlefield And Beyond.

Publishers Description: Peter Cosgrove was born into an Army family. He writes of his early years and the influences that shaped him before deciding on a military career. We follow him from raw recruit at Duntroon to early duty in Malaysia and then Vietnam, where he won the Military Cross, through to major events in recent times, including 9/11, the children overboard issue, the liberation of East Timor and the conflict in Iraq. General Cosgrove is not a man who flinches from telling it how it was. In these highly anticipated memoirs, the former Australian of the Year looks back over his respected and decorated military career with wit and warmth on top of the steel that made him one of Australias most popular and widely recognised military leaders. In 1999, General Peter Cosgrove was thrust into the full glare of the nations spotlight following his appointment as Commander of the International Forces in East Timor (INTERFET). Always in his slouch hat, he was a reassuring figure and we watched with pride the professionalism and concern of our peacekeeping forces who under his direction helped lay the foundations of a new nation. In his subsequent rise to Chief of the Army and then, in July 2002, to Chief of the Defence Force, the General cemented his reputation as a modern-day warrior chieftain as he displayed those characteristics we value most as Australians - strength, determination, intelligence, compassion and humour.

ISBN: 9780732283841