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Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
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
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'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
Fair Go, Sport by Peter FitzSimons
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sport
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In the Trenches of HellOn 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, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austral ...Show more
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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
James Cook: Master Mariner Navigator and Cartographer, the Man Behind the Myth by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable names in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, an ...Show more
James Cook - The story behind the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
HE STORY BEHIND THE MAN WHO MAPPED THE WORLD The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost ma ...Show more
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
Kokoda: Specially Adapted for Teenage Readers by Peter FitzSimons
$16.99 AUD
Category: YA Non-Fiction
For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened - and just what our troops achieved. In this new edition of his bestselling account of this seminal battle, Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, moving narrative specially geared for hi ...Show more
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of Australia?s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton.Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia?s greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition le ...Show more