George Ernest Johnston

George Johnston: A biography

The life of George Johnston, author of the best-selling My Brother Jack, was in many ways symbolic of Australian post-war cultural life. He was a complex character, dogged by feelings of mediocrity, betrayal and failure that he ultimately transformed though the writing of his brilliant trilogy My Br...

The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II

“No other writer has turned out a book on the fighting in New Guinea that can match Mr. Johnston’s. Superior literary quality projects this work far in advance of those earlier and more hasty accounts. Mr. Johnston is a young Australian war correspondent who lived through most of the action he descr...

Drafting Culture: A Social History of Architectural Graphic Standards

Architectural Graphics Standards by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper, first published in 1932 (and now in its eleventh edition), is a definitive technical reference for architects--the one book that every architect needs to own. The autho...

The Unexpected Journey: Living on the Edge of Life's Promises

“Bury your dead. Comfort the mortally wounded. Provide for the injured. Don’t envy the unscathed; their day will come. Break camp.” With this call to action, the author of this work begins the second part of his journey with Parkinson’s Disease as his constant companion. Not buoyed up by ce...

My Brother Jack

Through the story of two brothers who grew up in patriotic, suburban Melbourne, George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths - that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success, and that of the tough, honest, Aussie battler. It is a TV miniseries due in 2001.

Clean Straw for Nothing & A Cartload of Clay (Angus & Robertson Classics)

These two classic tales of identity and exile by award winning author George Johnston focus on David, a successful war correspondent, as he attempts to find his place in the world. George Johnston, born 1912, launched his journalistic career at the age of 16. He became Australia's first official war...

Did Darwin Get It Right?: Catholics and the Theory of Evolution

George Sim Johnston Sort out the facts about evolution by discovering that Catholic belief about God's creation and scientific evidence about the origins of the universe are mutually compatible.

George Johnst (British Marines officer) the ...

Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston (19 March 1764 5 January 1823) was briefly Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, Australia after leading the...

George Johnst (novelist)

George Henry Johnston OBE (20 July 1912 22 July 1970) was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack.

Strong-Man from Piraeus

Happy Enough: Poems 1935-1972

My Brother Jack

Clean Straw for Nothing/a Cartload of Clay

The Basset Hound

The Basset Hound

The Spirit-Paraclete in the Gospel of John

A Charge of Mutiny: The Court Martial of Lieutenant Colonel George Johnston for Deposing Governor William Bligh in the Rebellion of 26 January 1808