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Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australiana
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
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Military 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
Burke and Wills - The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian 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
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution by Peter FitzSimons
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Australian History
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
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Military 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
James Cook - The story behind the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Australiana | Reading Level: very good
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
32.99 AUD
36.99 (10% off)
Category: Military 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.
Mutiny on the Bounty: A Saga of Sex, Sedition, Mayhem and Mutiny (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
47.50 AUD
49.99 (4% off)
Category: Australian History
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plant ...Show more
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plan ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
26.80 AUD
27.99 (4% off)
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Ned Kelly by Peter FitzSimons
23.99 AUD
24.99 (4% off)
Category: Australiana
Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy?s brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
39.99 AUD
49.99 (20% off)
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more