Kokoda
teen edition
$18.99
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2016
Summary
Kokoda: Against the Odds
In the muddy, treacherous mountains of Papua New Guinea, 1942, a small force of young Australian soldiers - some of them still teenagers - are up against highly trained, experienced Japanese troops.
Many believed that the all-conquering Imperial Japanese Army was unstoppable. But this is the story of how these brave young Aussies faced up to some of the world’s best soldiers on a narrow, precarious jungle track - and defeated them.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780734417435 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0734417438 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Lothian Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 21mm |
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an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller - Sydney Morning HeraldThis reads like fiction, but it is all fact - Lieutenant Allan Kanga Moore, 39th Battalion
an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller - Sydney Morning Herald
This reads like fiction, but it is all fact - Lieutenant Allan Kanga Moore, 39th BattalionAbout The Author
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons AM is Australia’s bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 39 years has also been a journalist and columnist with the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and the SUN-HERALD.
He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including BREAKER MORANT, BURKE AND WILLS, MONASH’S MASTERPIECE, KOKODA, NED KELLY and GALLIPOLI, as well as biographies of such notable Australians as Sir Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake and John Eales. His passion is to tell Australian stories, our own stories: of great men and women, of stirring events in our history.
Peter grew up on a farm north of Sydney, went to boarding school in Sydney and attended Sydney University. An ex-Wallaby, he also lived for several years in rural France and Italy, playing rugby for regional clubs. He and his wife, Lisa Wilkinson AM - journalist, magazine editor and television presenter - have three children; they live in Sydney.
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