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Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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 by Peter Fitzsimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
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. Peter tells this iconic tale in GALLIPOLI. History comes to life with P ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
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 hist ...Show more
Gotta Love This Country!: Great Stories from Around Australia to Lift Your Heart, Make You Laugh and Puff Out Your Chest by Peter FitzSimons
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
A celebration of chest puffing goodness and kindness from around the country written in inimitable Peter FitzSimon's style.
Gotta Love This Country!: Great Stories of Good Sporting Deeds from Around Australia by Peter FitzSimons
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
In his very popular Saturday column, the 'Fitzy Files', Peter FitzSimons usually writes about famous sports men and women. But from time to time he throws in stories taken from grassroots sport and daily life. These are heartwarming and generous tales that makes us all puff up our chests with the pride ...Show more
James Cook: Master Mariner Navigator and Cartographer, the Man Behind the Myth by Peter FitzSimons
$50.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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: War
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
$15.00 AUD
Category: Y.A 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
Little Theories of Life by Peter FitzSimons
$17.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Why does the dominant partner in any sexual relationship usually sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door? Is there a direct relationship between the length of hemlines and the state of the national economy? Are odd numbers evil? And why do drivers with hats drive 40 kilometres per hour slower than ...Show more
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$25.00 AUD
Category: Historical
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
Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$34.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on hi ...Show more