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...Breaker Morant might be FitzSimons' most valuable book to date.--NATIONAL, Sydney Morning Herald, [AUDIENCE: 145,231, ASR: AUD 58,689] Breaker Morant may well be Peter FitzSimons best book so far. It deserves a wide and thoughtful readership.--Michael McKernan, NSW [Print], Newcastle Herald (et al. ACM) [AUDIENCE: 37,564, ASR: AUD 19,556] Fans of the author's campfire yarn-style of telling Australian history will find much to like in this latest book.--Jeff Maynard, NATIONAL [PRINT], Herald Sun, [AUDIENCE: 306,571, ASR: AUD 12,877] If your Kris Kringle is a history buff, they'll love Peter FitzSimons' new book [...]--NSW [PRINT], Sun Herald, [AUDIENCE: 135,093, ASR: 1309] Weaving between fact and fiction, it's history but reads like a novel.--NSW [PRINT] Sydney Morning Herald, [AUDIENCE: 74,348, ASR: 1280]

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Peter FitzSimons AM is Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 35 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 Nick Farr-Jones. 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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