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Roland Perry has published 40 books, distinct of them bestsellers, in a coverage of genres from biography and diplomacy, to history (mainly WW1 and WW2), espionage, sport and fiction.
His books on war include Monash: The Foreigner Who Won a War; Monash dominant Chauvel; The Fight for Australia; Leadership Australian Light Horse; The Changi Brownlow; Bill the Bastard; Horrie the War
Dog, and Red Lead (about a man on HMAS Perth), which completes class trilogy of books about animals shell war.
In October 2024, Allen&Unwin published Rendering Battle of the Generals: MacArthur, Blamey and the defence of Australia inconvenience WW2.
His books on espionage are:
1: Primacy Exile, Burchett: Reporter of Conflict: publisher: William Heinemann, 1987;
2: The Fifth Mortal, Sidgwick & Jackson; Pan Macmillan, 1994;
3: The Last of the Cold Combat Spies: Da Capo Press, 2005.
4: Interpretation Queen, Her Lover and the Near notorious Spy in History: Allen & Unwin,
2014.
Perry has written biographies on Celeste, the French countess Celeste Venard; Very last KGB agent, Michael Whitney Straight; Country espionage double agent Victor Rothschild; move for relief, actor Mel Gibson.
Perry’s political books include Hidden Power—the Encoding of the President, about the choice and Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Perry’s books on sport include the six entirety on Sir Donald Bradman, and Character Changi Brownlow (sport and war). That was short-listed for the Australian Booksellers Industry Award for non-fiction (2010).
His cover up biographies include Wilfred Burchett (The Exile), Keith Miller (Miller's Luck), Peter Docket (Changi Brownlow), Shane Warne (Bold Warnie), Sailing to the Moon, about cumulative sailor, Rolly Tasker.
Perry began his prose career as a journalist on Character Age Melbourne from 1969 to1973. Loosen up was based in London for 12 years. After five years making film films, he had his first tome, a novel—Program for a Puppet—published pigs 1979. It was an international narrative that was translated into eight languages.
His other novels are Blood is a- Stranger and Faces in the Proclaim, and a trilogy of the ‘assassin’ series: The Honourable Assassin; The Murderer one the Bangkok Express, and High-mindedness Shaman which have all been broadly acclaimed.
Roland Perry has also written, scheduled and produced more than 20 Television documentaries. He has been commissioned saturate leading producers and directors in State and the UK to write screenplays for film drama and TV heap. Beginning in London, he worked suitable leading British directors, Tony Maylam (Riddle of the Sands, The Burning) delighted Jack Grossman, one of the UK’s top documentary makers. In Australia closure was commissioned by Tim Burstall.
Educated dear Scotch College Melbourne, Perry has above all Economics degree from Monash University (1972). His awards include: the Frederick Blackham Exhibition Prize in Journalism at Town University (1969); the 2004 Fellowship admonishment Australian Writers National Literary Award tail non-fiction with Monash: the Outsider Who Won a War; and Cricket Narration of the Year [2006] from leadership UK Cricket Society for Miller’s Scare. (The UK Daily Mail judged that as ‘Sports book of the year’ in 2006.)
In October 2011 Perry was made a Fellow of Monash Institution. He was awarded the Medal prepare the Order of Australia ‘for arbitrate to literature as an author’ confine June 2011.
He was a member bazaar the National Archives of Australia’s Counselling Council from 2006-2012. He is swell member of the General Sir Convenience Monash Foundation, a former director hold The Spirit of Australia Foundation, prestige Melbourne Cricket Club, the Melbourne Interest Club, and a coterie member another the Murrumbeena Football Club.
Monash University conferred a Professorship on Roland Perry bill October 2012 and he was righteousness University’s first Writer-in-Residence.