James Cook
- 544 Seiten
- 20 Lesestunden
Bestselling Australian author Peter FitzSimons reveals the real James Cook in this new biography.
Peter FitzSimons Bücher
Peter FitzSimons ist eine herausragende und äußerst erfolgreiche australische Medien- und Verlagsgröße. Seine dynamische Karriere umfasst die Co-Moderation einer beliebten Frühstücksradiosendung, das Schreiben regelmäßiger Zeitungsspalten, Fernsehauftritte und, wenn es sein Zeitplan erlaubt, das Verfassen von Bestsellern. Er ist auch als Korrespondent für eine große Londoner Zeitung tätig und wird häufig als Gastredner und Moderator gesucht.
Ned Kelly
- 800 Seiten
- 28 Lesestunden
The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins
- 736 Seiten
- 26 Lesestunden
The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller.
"This is an account of the battle of Tobruk in 1941 in which Australian troops fought against the Afrika Korps in North Africa."--Provided by publisher.
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 naive, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her power to rid Europe of the Nazis. What began as a courier job here and there became a highly successful escape network for Allied soldiers, perfectly camouflaged by Nancy's high-society life in Marseille. Her network was soon so successful - and so notorious - that she was forced to flee France to escape the Gestapo, who had dubbed her the white mouse for her knack of slipping through its traps. But Nancy was a passionate enemy of the Nazis and refused to stay away. Supplying weapons and training members of a powerful underground fighting force, organising Allied parachute drops, cycling four hundred kilometres across a mountain range to find a new transmitting radio - nothing seemed too difficult in her fight against the Nazis.Peter FitzSimons reveals Nancy Wake's compelling story, a tale of an ordinary woman doing extraordinary things.
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero?
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli, the extraordinary story of the Australian Light Horse, their defining World War I battle: the iconic cavalry charge at Beersheba in October 1917, and the brave men who built the legend.
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.' Louis Kahn, US architect