The Legend of Albert Jacka
from the brutal shores of gallipoli to the battlefields of france, the epic story of the first australian soldier to be awarded the victoria cross in ww1
$48.00
- Hardcover
480 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
Albert Jacka: The Bravest of the Brave
Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become.
Albert ‘Bert’ Jacka was 21 when Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914. Bert soon enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and the young private was assigned to 14th Battalion D Company. By the time they shipped out to Egypt he’d been made a Lance Corporal.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733646690 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0733646697 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons, Cameron Goodall |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 810g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 241mm x 239mm |
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About 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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