The Ballad of Les Darcy
$31.38
- Paperback
262 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2009
Summary
An Australian hero torn between family and country.
‘Put Les Darcy in a uniform and the men of Australia will march to hell behind him.’ That was the message trained on Australia’s great ‘Blacksmith Boxer’, as debate about conscription raged in the middle of World War I. The problem was that Les Darcy didn’t want to march at the fore of such a procession, nor to such a destination. He wanted to continue what he had been doing to extraordinary acclaim before the war began – taking on t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780732289515 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0732289513 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 262 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He is the author of over twenty-seven books - including biographies of Charles Kingsford Smith, Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nene King, Nick Farr-Jones, Steve Waugh and John Eales - and is one of Australia’s biggest selling non-fiction authors of the last fifteen years.
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