The World — and especially Europe — was at a crossroads in mid-1939, a crossroads that were to prove “the war to end all wars” one of the most mistaken pledges of all time. My father, Arnold Rozentals, then a 17-year-old living on Latvia’s Baltic Coast not far from Ventspils, was also at a crossroads — a young man about to embark on an education that saved him from almost certain death on the back blocks of World War II and eventually propelled him to a new life in Australia. It isn’t a Boys’ Own story of VC-winning gallantry, but it is a story of how ordinary people survived the maelstrom ... a great human story, and, in many parts, a great adventure story — John Rozentals

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Margaret Trudeau ... In her first book for more than 30 years, Canada’s former first lady, tells the story of her controversial life. MORE

Kerry O'Keeffe ... Great cricketing yarns from one of the game's funniest and most incisive commentatoers. MORE

For nearly 10 years now, five Orange High School ex-students from the class of 1962–67 and their husbands have organised an annual get-together. MORE

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