Gallipoli
from the author of the opera house, batavia and mutiny on the bounty
$24.01
- Paperback
800 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2017
Summary
Gallipoli: The Birth of a Nation Forged in Fire
‘Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.’ - Sydney Morning Herald
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.
Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its history, a heroic last stand in the defence of the nat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143786351 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143786350 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 630g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 50mm |
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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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