Peter FitzSimons

Broschiertes Buch

The Catalpa Rescue

The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison story in Australian and Irish history

Beschreibung

The Catalpa Rescue is the gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history by the much-loved Peter FitzSimons.

Autor

Peter FitzSimons is Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 30 years he has also been a journalist and columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and the SunHerlad. He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including 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 of great men and women, of stirring events in Australian 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 - journalist, magazine editor and currently co-presenter of TODAY on Channel 9 - have three children; they live in Sydney.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781472131348
• ISBN-10: 1472131347
• Artikelnr.: 57832103