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Peter FitzSimons - Fromelles & Pozieres
AU$25.00
ISBN: 978-1-742-75950-0
Publisher: William Heinemann, Australia - 2015
Synopsis: 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 describes as 'the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history'.
Condition: Hardcover including dustjacket; Overall a very good hardcover with very light shelf wear; Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition;
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Peter FitzSimons - Steve Waugh
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ISBN: 978-0-732-27647-8
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishing - 2004
Synopsis: There have been many heroes in Australia's sporting history, but very few icons. Sir Donald Bradman. Phar Lap. Dawn Fraser. John Landy. Shane Gould. Cathy Freeman. Allan Border. Ian thorpe. And Steve Waugh. For many Australians, Steve Waugh is the greatest cricketer of the modern era, an accomplished all-rounder who became a victorious captain, responsible for shepherding the strongest Australian cricketing team in years to a position of worldwide prominence. He was tough, but fair, and never asked anything of his team-mates that he didn't ask of himself. At the end of his captaincy, he graciously threw in his red rag before he had to be wheeled back in with the drinks trolley. the man himself has remained an enigma, and that's just the way he likes it. In Waugh, acclaimed biographer Peter FitzSimons goes behind Steve Waugh's public face to paint a portrait of an emotional, complex man who is devoted to his family, a champion of seemingly lost causes (including the teams he captained), and the only true successor to the Don. We may never see the like of Stephen Rodger Waugh again.
Condition: Hardcover and dustjacket show light shelf wear; Pages are clean, unmarked and in excellent condition;
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Peter FitzSimons - Charles Kingsford Smith And Those Magnificent Men
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ISBN: 978-0-732-28487-9
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishing - 2009
Synopsis: 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 won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his generation. Along with Charles Ulm, he was the first to conquer the Pacific by air, the first to fly across the Tasman Sea, the fastest to fly from England to Australia, and the first pilot to circumnavigate the globe by crossing the equator. With typical flair, FitzSimons also tells the story of several breakthroughs, some made in Australia, which laid the foundation for the Wright brothers' success in 1903; the first flight across the Channel in 1908; Germany's Red Baron terrorising the Allies in 1917-18, before being shot down by an Australian; Ross and Keith Smith's first flight from England to Australia in 1919; the formation of Qantas in 1921; Lindbergh's stunning vault between America and Europe in 1927; the Great Centenary Air Race; the loss of the Southern Cloud; the saga of Bert Hinkler and much, much more...
Condition: Some shelf wear on the exterior of the hardcover and dust jacket; Name of previous owner on title page; Pages are clean and in very good condition;
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