Peter FitzSimons

Kokoda

Large Pre-loved Paperback

For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened – and just what our troops achieved. Now, bestselling author Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, moving story for all Australians.

Conditions on the track were hellish – rain was constant, the terrain close to inhospitable, food and ammunition supplies were practically non-existent and the men constantly battled malaria and dysentery, as well as the Japanese.

Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia – a small force of young, ill-equipped Australians engaged a highly experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track – and defeated them.

Book type: Large pre-loved paperback
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Very good
Cover image: For illustration purposes only
Notes: This book looks very good. The cover has some marks and slight damage at the corners. It has no missing or damaged pages, no creasing, no writing, notes or highlighting.

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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.

‘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 Battalion.

‘For Australians, the battles in Papua New Guinea… were the most important ever fought’ Paul Keating

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