Australian author, Paula Astridge, was born in the NSW country town of Inverell in 1958. Later moving to Sydney, she worked for Rolling Stone Magazine and the newspaper industry before co-founding a successful advertising agency and then pursuing her writing career on a full-time basis. Four of her books are focused on WWII from the German perspective:: Golden Boy, In the Way of the Reich, Kill The Fuhrer and Rocket Man, which respectively profile the enigmatic Albert Speer; Hermann and Albert Goering, Count Claus von Stauffenberg and Wernher von Braun -- the contentious inventor of the V-2 rocket that devastated London and his Apollo 11, which flew us to the moon.Astridge moves with her next two books to concentrate on the largely unknown role Australia played in world history: Waltzing Dixie and Bad Hand tackle, in turn, the untold story of the men from Australia who fought in the American Civil War, and the final solution to the mystery of Fletcher Christian after the Bounty mutiny. Both books piqued interest in the film industry and Bad Hand was nominated for the prestigious UK Mountbatten Maritime Literary Award by Britain’s First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff.While her book, Deep Sleep, delved into the sinking of the Titanic and the dramatic lives of the people it forever affected, her most recent three books have returned to the World Wars: Scallywag looking into the murky world of Allied espionage and the mysterious wartime disappearance of Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay, while Because Our Fathers Lied was written in tribute to the part Australia played in WWI and its outstanding commanders who brought victory home. And now comes her latest book: Blame Me all about Australia’s controversial Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Thomas Blamey and his ongoing feud with General John Lavarack during WWII. It is an exciting saga that spans both World Wars, along with all the intrigue, among military and political circles, that happened in between.
