Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humor from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms,
The story of the greatest Australian legend outside of wartime, the Eureka BlockadeAustralia's answer to the Boston Tea Party and to the French people's storming of the Bastille was the Eureka Blockad
Readers are drawn into the greatest Australian legend outside of wartime, the Eureka BlockadeAustralia's answer to the Boston Tea Party and to the French people's storming of the Bastille was the Eure
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero?Most people have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned
The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Battle of Tobruk, in which more than 15,000 Australian t
Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his Gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of ter
On April 25, 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of te
A prominent Australian historian brings Ned Kelly and his gang exuberantly to life, weighing in on all of the myths, legends, and controversies generated by this compelling and divisive Irish-Australi
In the Trenches of Hell On July 19, 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. B
Why does the dominant partner in any sexualrelationship usually sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door? Is there adirect relationship between the length of hemlines and the state of thenational
