Australia's biggest-selling non-fiction author brings his prodigious storytelling talents to bear on one of the defining (and most disastrous) campaigns of the First World War: Gallipoli.
PETER FITZSIMONS is journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald and a television presenter and reporter. He speaks four languages, used to play rugby for Australia while the individuals he has interviewed range from George Bush and Sir Edmund Hillary to Jamie Oliver, Jodie Foster and Diego Maradona. He is also Australia’s biggest-selling non-fiction author of the last decade. His books include Kokoda, Tobruk, Batavia and most recently, Ned Kelly.He lives with his wife, 'Today Show' co-host Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney.
"Peter FitzSimons has an enviable ability to bring history to
life... in Gallipoli he has produced a work of fascinatingly
imaginative popular history - underpinned by meticulous research
and scholarship."
*Sydney Morning Herald*
"FitzSimons takes us deep into the disastrous Gallipoli campaign
and spells out in detail the fateful steps that led Australian and
New Zealand soldiers to utter devastation, if not absolute
despair."
*The Age, Melbourne*
"A high-octane account . . . FitzSimons has combed the personal
narratives to good effect . . . serves up the story just how
Australians like to taste it."
*Sunday Times*
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