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Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution [used book] * OUT OF STOCK *

By: Peter Fitzsimons

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Australia, William Heinemann: 2013

Seller ID: 003915

ISBN: 1742755259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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 flag is still raised, and even the nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it "a strike for liberty". Was this rebellion a fledgling nation's first attempt to assert its independence under colonial rule? Or was it merely rabble-rousing by unruly miners determined not to pay their taxes? In his inimitable style, Peter FitzSimons gets ...
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Tobruk [used book]

By: Peter Fitzsimons

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Australia, Harper Collins: 2006

Seller ID: 003921

ISBN: 0732276454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"Tobruk" narrates the taking of Tobruk as part of a general thrust in North Africa by Allied forces. A panicked Winston Churchill wrote: "Tobruk seems to be the place to be held to the death without thought of retirement...nothing must hamper the capture of Tobruk". In the dark heart of World War II, when Hitler turned his attentions to conquering North Africa, a distracted and far-flung Allied force could not give its all to the defence of the key city of Tobruk in Libya. So the job was left to the roughest, toughest bunch they could muster. "Tobruk" is the story of an incredible battle in ex...
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The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down: How an Over-50 Former Footballer Went from Fat to Fit ... and Lost 45 Kilos

By: Peter Fitzsimons

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Australia, Ebury Press: 2016

Seller ID: A1175

ISBN: 0143781863

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

"The story of one man who had the guts to lose his gut. This is a book that will finally help an ordinary bloke lose weight. (Don't worry, it has nothing to do with wearing a red bandana.) Ever struggled with your weight? Or did you stop struggling years ago and let the pies win? Peter FitzSimons has been there and eaten that. In The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down, he will lead you through the fads that failed him, the diets that died fast and left him furious, and the ways his waistline kept the belt industry in business. Take tips from someone who knows how to eat and drink way too much - and ...
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Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's most Notorious Legend

By: Peter FitzSimons

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Australia, William Heinemann: 2015

Seller ID: 9780857988140

ISBN: 085798814X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

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 a political revolutionary, an Australian republican channelling the spirit of Eureka? Peter FitzSimons, bestselling chronicler of many of the great defining moments and people of this nation's history, is the perfect person to tell this most iconic of all Australian stories. From Kelly's early d...
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Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend [unabridged audio CD]

By: Peter Fitzsimons and read by Richard Aspel

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Australia, Bolinda: 2013

Seller ID: 9781486202041

ISBN: 1486202047

Binding: Audio Book (CD)

Condition: New

Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. 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 a political revolutionary, channelling the...
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Author:Peter Fitzsimons

Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution [used book] *** OUT OF STOCK ***

Tobruk [used book]

The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down: How an Over-50 Former Footballer Went from Fat to Fit ... and Lost 45 Kilos

Ned Kelly : The Story of Australia's most Notorious Legend

Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend [unabridged audio CD]

Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution [used book] * OUT OF STOCK *