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Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England an ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Burke & Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.' MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first ...Show more
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago. MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first E ...Show more
Charles Kingsford-Smith Audio by FITZSIMONS Peter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
A comprehensive biography of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, one of Australia's true twentieth-century legends. He was the first person to fly across the Pacific, he broke the record for the fastest flight from England to Australia, and at one point he held more long-distance flying records than anyone els ...Show more
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: good
Known to millions simply as 'Smithy', Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was one of Australia's true twentieth-century legends. In an era in which aviators were superstars, Smithy was among the greatest and, throughout his amazing career, his fame in Australia was matched only by that of Don Bradman. Among oth ...Show more
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer. In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he ...Show more
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Eureka Stockade - The Unfinished Revolution In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic ...Show more
Fair Go, Sport by Peter FitzSimons
$29.99 AUD
Category: Other Sports
Fitzy at his passionate best with chest-puffing tales of great sportsmanship and fair play. The idea for this book is simple. In the year when Australian cricketers have colluded to nakedly cheat, when attendance rates for all of soccer, rugby union and rugby league have either drifted or roared south, ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its histo ...Show more