Victory at Villers-Bretonneux
from the author of Gallipoli, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty
- Hardcover
784 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2016
Summary
On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the entire battle.
It’s early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser’s soldiers can now be transfe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742759524 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742759521 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 784 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 978g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 167mm x 60mm |
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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 fifteen 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 lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney. His forthcoming book is Fromelles and Pozieres- In the Trenches of Hell.
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