Author ROLAND PERRY OAM is one of Australia’s most prolific and versatile writers.
Professor Perry’s non-fiction works include The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History as well as comprehensive works on the two major war fronts of the Great War: Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War, The Australian Light Horse and Monash and Chauvel. He further covered Australia’s involvement in the Pacific War of 1941–1945 with The Fight for Australia.
He is the only author to publish two biographies on the infamous Cambridge University Ring of Spies, who were controlled by Russian Intelligence: The Fifth Man and The Last of the Cold War Spies.
Professor Perry’s other non-fiction international bestsellers include The Don, the definitive biography of Sir Donald Bradman, Miller’s Luck, and Hidden Power, about the election and presidency of Ronald Reagan. A brief foray into books on animals saw him publish the classic Bill the Bastard and Horrie: The War Dog.
Anzac Sniper is his thirty-third book and seventeenth biography.