Fromelles and Pozières
in the trenches of hell
$26.95
- Paperback
800 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2017
Summary
Fromelles and Pozières: Hell on the Western Front
The story of the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front.
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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, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143786344 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143786342 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 589g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 56mm |
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About The Author
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, and a busy events and motivational speaker. He is the author of over twenty-seven books, including Tobruk, Kokoda, Batavia, Eureka, Ned Kelly, Gallipoli and biographies of Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nick Farr-Jones, Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales, and is one of Australia’s biggest selling non-fiction authors of the last twenty years.
Peter was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations. He is also Chair of the Australian Republican Movement.
He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney.
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