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A Simpler Time: A Memoir of Love, Laughter, Loss and Billycarts by Peter FitzSimons
$10.00 AUD
$35.00 (71% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and values clear; when people stood by each other in adv ...Show more
CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH AND THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN by PETER FITZSIMONS
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men by Peter FitzSimons
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
Known to millions simply as 'Smithy', Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was one of Australia's true twentieth-century legends. In an era in which aviators were superstars, Smithy was among the greatest and, throughout his amazing career, his fame in Australia was matched only by that of Don Bradman. Among oth ...Show more
Charles Kingsford Smith and those Magnificent Men by Peter Fitzsimons
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is one of Australia's most beloved heroes. In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier among 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 ...Show more
Everyone But Phar Lap by Peter FitzSimons
$14.00 AUD
$21.95 (36% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
John Eales: The Biography by Fitzsimons, Peter
$25.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
John Eales is a giant of a man who stands almost 6 foot 8 inches tall. In rugby union he plays with the big men in tight forwards - in the lineouts, scrums, rucks and malls. This is a brutal world of strength, power and toughness. So why is Eales Australia's most loved player? Perhaps it's because altho ...Show more
Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimons
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Dop 2008 Australia Peter FitzSimons weaves together the extraordinary story of For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know the names of the men who fought on the track, or even the details of what happened. More Australians died in the months of fighting in Papua, t ...Show more
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
$36.99 AUD
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.
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December, 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision an ...Show more
Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
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 naïve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that ...Show more
The Ballard of Les Darcy by Peter Fitzsimons
$10.00 AUD
$11.00 (9% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Books Alive Ser.
The Ballad of Les Darcy, a biography of the legendary Australian boxer, is the latest book from Australia's bestselling author Peter FitzSimons and is exclusive to Books Alive. It's FREE in participating bookshops when a customer buys any book from The 2007 Books Alive Great Read Guide.