Name Lynette Silver | Role Author | |
Books Sandakan: A Conspira, The Battle of Vinegar Hill: Austr, The Bridge at Parit Sulong: A, Deadly Secrets: The Sing, Marcel Caux: A Life Unra | ||
Lynette Ramsay Silver (born 1945) is an Australian historian and author. She has written a number of books dealing with Australian history. In particular many of her works deal with military history.
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Career
Her first book, "The Battle of Vinegar Hill" was published in 1989, dealing with the Irish Castle Hill convict rebellion of 1804. In 1998 her book "Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence" was published, regarding the Sandakan Death Marches of World War II and the coverup of a failed mission to rescue the allied prisoners. In 2004 "The Bridge at Palit Sulong" was published about a 1942 massacre of allied prisoners by Japanese soldiers.
Personal life
She is married and has two children and three grandchildren.
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