About the Author
The author's interest in the American Civil War veterans started in junior primary school days. After careers in heavy industry and politics he abandoned these disastrous choices and gained a double honours degree (English & Drama) with Modern History as a third, specialising in the rebellion against western imperialists in nineteenth century India and China. Other subsequent history studies at university included: The Conquest of Mexico, Nazi Germany, Migration, the Crusades, Witch-hunts from 1400-1700 and the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Crete, Troy, Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe. In 1995 by a fluke he became a tutor and defacto university lecturer/tutor, being the only person in the city qualified with the required highly specialized degree. He then worked in mainstream English for a term and then in university preparatory courses for indigenous students in English, Sociology, Education, Critical Literacy and Psychology. After government retrenchments to university in 1998, he returned to High School teaching. Since 2008 he organises and plays community radio programs in the Folk and Celtic genres. Garry recently finished a second university degree, this time solely in History.
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The American Civil War:
History:
- America's Last Civil War Veterans and Participants: An Investigation (Book : 404 Pages)
- Gryzb's The Last Civil War Veterans (Review)
- Callow Brave and True: A Gospel of Civil War Youth (Review)
- Sunset and Dusk of the Blue and the Gray: Last Living Chapter of the American Civil War (Review)
- Keegan's The American Civil War (Review)
- Last to Join the Fight: The 66th Georgia Infantry (Review)
- Who Were the Last Living Veterans of the American Civil War?
- Montana's Last Civil War Veterans (Review)
History:
- Christians at Pompeii
- Did Robin Hood Exist?
- He took us to Gallipoli (Recollection)
- Caesar's Assassination: Who Gained? Who Lost?
- The Evidence for a Historical Trojan War: Is it Accurate and Compelling?
- History: Is it the Recreated Past or a Historian's Selective Personal Viewpoint
- Art Deco A Cultural Revolution 1895-1940 (book)
- Bias, Objectivity, Subjectivity and History
- Barbara Tuchman Mankind's Better Moments Revisted
- The First Nuremberg Trial
- Akhenaten and Nefertiti (book)
- The Black Death The Effects on England 1346-1918 (book)
- Clipper Ships: The Appeal of Sail
- The Celtic Quest
- Ireland in Poetry
- Lee's Go Set a Watchman
- The Nibelungenlied
- William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun
- Joseph Heller's - Catch-22
- James Hilton's - Nothing So Strange
- The Changing Meaning of Heroism - The Sun Also Rises
- Jack London's The Iron Heel (essay)
- R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island
- R.L. Stevenson's An Old Song
- Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato
- Mailer's The Naked and the Dead
- Patrick White A Double Review
- Morrow's Trinity Fields
- Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind
- Sewell's Black Beauty
- MacLean's A Game of Sorrows
- Vidal's Burr
- Leonard's Cuba Libre
- Dickey's to the White Sea
- Bellow's Dangling Man
- The Farmhouse Book by David Larkin
- Two Centuries of Australian Poetry
- 1922 and 1927: A Double Review
- A History of the American People
- Meetings with Remarkable Trees
- Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River
- As Maine As It Gets
- Batavia
- The Tournament
- Lionheart: The True Story of England's Crusader King
- God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe 570-1215
- Sixties People
- Tis Herself: A Memoir by Maureen O'Hara
- The Trotsky Reappraisal
- 1913 The Year Before the Storm
- Antoni Gaudi
- Daintree
- Wild Horses of the World
- Rough Riders
- Freud: The BBC Series
- The Antiques Road Show
- Vietnam. 1987 Television Series
- Joanna Lumley's Japan
- Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
- I Dream of Jeannie
- Joanna Lumley's Quest For Noah's Ark
- Tim's Vermeer
- Monty Don's American Gardens
- Thompson's The Guns of Navarone (1961)
- Krims's Crossed Swords(1954)
- Corman's The Secret Invasion(1964)
- Jewison's The Russians are Coming (1966)
- Thorpe's Malaya (1949)
- Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950)
- Warren's Little Big Horn (1951)
- Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958)
- Wood's A Night at the Opera (1935)
- Flemyng's The Last Grenade (1970)
- Bergman's Cries and Whispers (1972)
- Branagh's Hamlet (1996)
- Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli (1978)
- Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965)
- The Day of the Triffids (1962)
- Castle's The Old Dark House (1963)
- Milestone's Kangaroo The Australian Story (1952)
- Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947)
- Launder's Geordie (1955)
- McLeod's The Paleface (1948)
- Rossen's Island in the Sun (1957)
- Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
- Hathaway's Niagara (1953)
- Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
- Goulding's Grand Hotel (1932)
- Ford's The Iron Horse (1924)
- De Mille's The Ten Commandments. (1956)
- Whale's The Invisible Man (1933)
- Capra's It Happened One Night (1934)
- Kinugasa's Gates of Hell (1953)
- Widerberg's Elvira Madigan. (1967)
- Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971)
- Critchon's The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- Home Alone (1991)
- The Road To Zanzibar (1941)
- Fairbanks The Black Pirate (1926)
- Millius's Dillinger (1973)
- Hitchcock's Notorious (1946)
- Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945)
- Bogdanovitch's Paper Moon (1973)
- Remy's Lola (1961)
Twenty First Century Film Reviews
- To Kill a King
- Lion (2016)
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- The Water Diviner
- Noah
- A Million Ways to Die in the West
- A Walk in the Woods
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Dallas Buyers Club
- The Dressmaker
- Bridge of Spies
- Vicki Christina Barcelona
- The Revenant
- In the Heart of the Sea
- Did You Hear About the Morgans?
- Crimson Peak
- Spectre
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Pompeii (Hollywood Epic)
- The Danish Girl
- La La Land
- Land
- Land of the Bears
- Breath
- Book Club
- I Claude Monet
- The Secret Garden
- Dream Horse
- Penguin Bloom
- Delicious (2021)
- Marry Me
- How to Use a Dictionary
- How to Use a Computer Dictionary
- How to Write a Review
- How to Create a Word Document
- Gary Shearston 1939 - 2013: Australia's Troubador (book)
- The Medieval British Ballads: Their Age, Origins and Authenticity (book)
- Songs From Ireland (review)
- Songcatcher (review)
- Old Yellow Moon (review)
- Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris (in concert)
- Celtic Angel (review)
- Rita Coolidge: A Double Review
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1965) (review)
- Saura's Blood Wedding (1981) (review)
- Fantasia (1940) (review)
- Lester's Help! (1965) (review)
- Cats (2019) (review)
- Desperate Romantics: (review)
- The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Burne-Jones (review)
- John Everett Millais (review)
- Early Days at Ocean Ridge
- The Myth of the Prophet: Trotsky and his Followers
- Trotsky and the Kronstadt Rebellion
- Jack Grancharoff: 1925-2016 Living for Freedom
- The Indian Mutiny of 1857. Motivations and Ideology
- Rhetoric Romance and Reality: Maude Gonne and W.B Yeats
- Looking Back to Save the Future:W.B Yeats and WIlliam Morris
- J. W. Waterhouse 1849-1917: His Life and Art
- Why Cortez Conquered
- Why Greenland's Norse Colony Failed
- Columbus: Assessing the Evidence
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